Brake fade Brakes are one of a number of mechanisms and forces in a car that slow it down. The others include air resistance, rolling resistance, engine compression and gravity (if travelling uphill). Relying solely on the brakes for long…
Brake fade Brakes are one of a number of mechanisms and forces in a car that slow it down. The others include air resistance, rolling resistance, engine compression and gravity (if travelling uphill). Relying solely on the brakes for long…
Often a poor memory is the result of a number of influences: we convince ourselves our memory is bad, we’ve been told our memory is bad, we haven’t practiced using our memory, or we haven’t learned how to remember. Don’t…
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…
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…
Railways are sometimes denoted using a crossbuck sign, and other times using a graphic or words. The direction of the tracks could be indicated on a sign. Crossbucks will sometimes show the number of tracks you need to cross, e.g.…
Road maintenance is a balance between cost-effectiveness and durability. Our ever-increasing traffic volumes put more and more strain on the road and that leads to degradation of the asphalt or graded earth that then needs to be repaired. As Australia…
