A father has driven into big trouble over the double yellow lines he demanded on his street. Scott Taylor says he is more than £4,000 in debt after getting fine after fine for parking outside his house. Scott had himself demanded the lines in Mayan Avenue, Salford, after saying his […]
Transport and Driving
Slovakia’s AeroMobil is working on the newest model of its flying car and says it is sure it is about to take off. The company recently presented a prototype of the AeroMobil 4.0 to a trade fair in China and one of its ebullient founders, Juraj Vaculík, said afterwards: “We’re […]
Drivers are being blinded by the headlights of modern vehicles and finally it’s been recognised. According to an RAC survey two-thirds of drivers admit they are “regularly dazzled” by oncoming headlights even though they are dipped. The RAC had asked 2,061 motorists. Frighteningly, almost 70 per cent said it takes […]
He was ‘misled’ over Iraq’s WMDs and now it appears he was misled over ‘clean’ deisel cars too Tony Blair and his cohorts should never have told the UK driving population to buy diesel cars, and now their ‘mistake’ is costing us a fortune and shortening our lives – and […]
The Government’s pledge to ban diesel and petrol vehicles in 23 years time is the biggest revolution in motoring since Henry Ford began making combustion engine vehicles everyone could afford. But how is the Government going to do it? How is it going to get us to all to ‘go […]
A Parisian is going to court accusing France of failing to protect her from of air pollution. Clotilde Nonnez, a 56-year-old yoga teacher, has lived in Paris for three decades and says her health has deteriorated, particularly last December when pollution hit record levels. Pollution in France is said to […]
Taking a breath of fresh air in the UK may not be quite as simple as you might think. Pollution is a major problem in Britain, killing more people than in most Western European countries … there could be at least 40,000 deaths a year in the UK. “Over short […]
Jeremy Clarkson once gleefully said there are no speed cameras on this particular road in the British West Midlands… everybody thought he was spouting nonsense. But was he? So, here’s a different one for you … do any of our readers recognise what this roadside contraption actually is? It appeared […]
The road hauliers association has driven headlong into the battle over the scrappage of diesel vehicles in the UK, saying their giant trucks only do as much damage to air quality as a small family car. Their claim comes as the Government pledges to pay diesel drivers compensation under new […]
Car-makers who fit ever-more powerful headlights as a ‘safety’ feature are being accused of causing thousands of accidents instead. Headlight glare is becoming a major factor in more and more deaths and accidents, according to UK government figures backed by police. In 2014, investigators reported headlight dazzle as an influence […]