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When Mercedes brought out the Smart Fortwo petrol car, it was meant to be easily convertible to battery power, but now there’s the already-converted version: the Smart Fortwo EV (electric vehicle). It’s being test driven in its ‘natural habitat’ of urban streets and will be on the open market in 2012. Mercedes is quoting a base price . . . → Read More: The Smart Fortwo EV Research from AXA shows that one in ten of us has had a prang while driving either to or from a holiday destination in the UK, while 7% more have had a bump on the way to or from their UK airport, railway station or ferry port on the way to their holidays. The research showed that . . . → Read More: Holiday Driving Tips – How to avoid driving accidents during your holiday The dangerous actions of some motorists has left Consett residents frustrated and concerned. Motorists have been displaying anti-social behavior that many people say could be life-threatening. Locals from Consett in Co Durham are working together with the police force in order to catch the speeding drivers and to help in promoting safe driving for its residents. Motorists . . . → Read More: Volunteer speeding wardens to be used to slow traffic Businesses and motoring groups are concerned after councils made plans to charge workers to park at their workplace. The Government has been asking the councils to seek out different ways of raising money, and it appears that this is the result. It seems that levies on workplace parking will not be banned, as was commonly thought when . . . → Read More: Business’s to be charged £250 to use their own parking spaces Cameras have been installed in Spain that can take photos of vehicles with foreign plates and send them via wi-fi to patrol cars. Thus, officers can chase down any offenders and give them £500 fines on the spot instead of searching for a home address to send the fine notice. If a motorist will not pay the . . . → Read More: Spain will use cameras to catch British speeders Raymond Hampshire, aged 87, had cataracts in both eyes and should not have been driving when he hit a scoter tossing Fiona Buckley, aged 43, with spina bifida to the ground. Buckley would have appeared invisible to him due to the fact that his sight was so foggy according to testimony given in the Sheffield Crown Court. . . . → Read More: 87 year old driver released after death of scooter rider It appears that the police, under the direction of the new government, are to give the police a new device to detect drug drivers. It has been reported that no such device is available at the moment and that there is £300,000 research fund set up to develop it. Dr Malcolm VandenBurg, a specialist in both . . . → Read More: Government’s ability to develop drug driving police detector questioned by expert This is a great short video using kids to highlight exactly how ridiculous we look as adults when we indulge in . . . → Read More: Road Rage Video – Kids Style Getting behind the wheel of a super powerful, super fast, perfectly tuned and utterly gorgeous automobile and being in control of all that magnificence at 160 mph or more is a recurring dream for an unknown but probably huge number of men (and women). If someone you know and love harbours that dream, here’s a brilliant idea: . . . → Read More: Anyone can get behind the wheel of a supercar Can a car change a town? See what happened on a journey from Menton, the pearl of France to Gisburn, Lancashire. The Mégane Experiment stars Claude who goes to Gisburn, Lancashire where there are no Méganes, and convinces villagers he is a ‘joie de vivre’ expert from Menton, Côte d’Azur, France, where there are many. Over the course . . . → Read More: Renault Megane Joie de Vivre videos |
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