In the battle for the road, bike riders come off second best.
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New South Wales’ new tougher bike laws reveal an ongoing war of the roads.
The race is on …
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TVR has joined the bid for factory space in south Wales.
Motorists in New South Wales must now keep a minimum distance of one metre when passing cyclists.
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Cyclists have voiced their opposition to some aspects of the Go Together package to ensure their safety on NSW roads.
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Self-driving cars are way more energy efficient than your average vehicle – but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll reduce carbon emissions.
The DBX could herald a new future for Aston Martin.
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The rolling hills of south Wales are proving to be the perfect place for green car manufacturers.
Only the beginning: already there are cars that can take over steering on highways. How will things change once driverless cars arrive?
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A thought experiment: how will people view mobility and personal vehicles once we have electric, autonomous vehicles in the future?
Back to basics in the home of the fuel cell.
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Will the Rasa be a clean slate for the advancement of fuel cell cars?
A White House proposal to tax crude oil would address the U.S.’s perennially underfunded highway maintenance program.
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Obama’s proposal to add $10 tax to crude oil raises the thorny question of whether the U.S. can continue to fund its highway infrastructure with a fuel tax that hasn’t changed since 1993.
A concept-only supercar, perhaps, but one that could shake up the status quo.
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Will China end up eating the lunch of the current crop of global car manufacturers?
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Just because we’ve got electric supercars, doesn’t mean it’s the only way to a greener future.
Young drivers are at high risk of fatal crashes, but it’s wrong to just blame the problem on youth ‘recklessness’.
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It is widely believed that youth recklessness is often the cause of young driver crashes, but is this simply a myth?
Plugging the gaps.
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Allowing infrastructure to take over the job of keeping our vehicles running sends us further down a troublesome road.
This is her first car, and it may be the last one she owns.
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Automated vehicles are set to shake up the business model of the automotive industry, resulting in less people owning cars and many more sharing instead.
The first driverless car tests are set to commence in South Australia this year.
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Trials of autonomous vehicles are set to kick off in Australia this year. So how far down the road to driverless cars are we today?
There was no joy for the creator of the DeLorean – the car was a failure.
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Few would remember this fantasy car as a model of motoring excellence. It owes its success instead to a fantasy film that has turned 30.
Awaiting a new model. Car firms struggle to adapt.
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Volkswagen’s example offers up a useful lesson in managing a troublesome hierarchy.
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The way we get around has been revolutionised over the past half a century. But old habits die hard.
The makers of GPS devices are among the many factors and actors whose role in road safety has not been fully considered.
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The focus is on reducing the “fatal five” behaviours that cause road trauma: speeding, drink and drug driving, not wearing seatbelts, fatigue and driving while distracted.
In a spin. Underestimating your customers?
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Volkswagen and others may have been hamstrung by a low opinion of indifferent car buyers.
Classic VW ad from 1962.
The scandal around the German car maker is all the more galling for a company that created arguably the best advertising in history.