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New Zealand animal road signs

Many of us will go for a quick trip to New Zealand at some time in our lives – flights are cheap. Unlike here, though, New Zealand doesn’t have a huge number of large animals that you can run into.

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African animal road signs

Planning a holiday to Africa? They’ve got animals much bigger than those in Australia, so while you might have to deal with errant camels and cattle over here, you could bump into an elephant, hippopotamus or rhino in Africa. If

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What is a vehicle platoon?

A vehicle platoon is a group of vehicles that travels in close proximity to one another, nose-to-tail, at highway speeds. A lead vehicle is followed by a number of other vehicles that closely match their speed and manoeuvres to the

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The biggest distractions while driving

A HealthDay Poll in November 2011 of 2800 American adults found: Approximately 13% of adult drivers have browsed the Internet while driving Approximately 14% of drivers have applied makeup while driving. At least 1 out of every 5 drivers have

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How to perfect the three types of parking

Technology is gradually eroding our ability to perform certain tasks, and parking is one of them. Eventually we won’t need to be able to park because our vehicles will do it for us – in some cases, they already do.

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Reversing cameras and reversing sensors: What are they and how do they help?

How reversing cameras and sensors developed As soon as vehicles were invented there was the need to manoeuvre them in reverse. The first vehicles were open and therefore it was easy to see behind, but as vehicles became more complex

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Driving on rural and outback roads in Australia

Australia has hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads that are nowhere near settlements. Unlike in, for example, the UK, where almost all the roads will have some kind of asphalt, here it can be anything from cloying mud through

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