With over 700,000 miles (1.13 million kilometres) of test driving on the roads around Mountain View, California, Google’s autonomous car is not intelligent enough to recognise a cyclist’s hand signal and to navigate through roadworks. While it’s fairly straightforward for…
The IAM, which has branches all over the world, including here in Australia, has called on the UK government to introduce driver health checks for drivers over a certain age to ensure that they are still capable of being in…
Australia already has quite strict laws on driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. In New South Wales it is illegal to drive a car, motorbike or heavy vehicle while under the influence of drugs, and this also includes…
According to Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) our government is planning to implement a per kilometre road usage charge. The fees will be calculated using a number of factors such as the weight of the vehicle, where it’s being driven and…
Braking, or stopping distance, is the distance a vehicle travels from the full application of its brakes until it has stopped. Vehicle manufacturers try to shorten stopping distances because the shorter the distance, the more likely the driver is to…
Electronic Stability Control is a set of electronics that works to determine if a car is skidding. If it detects loss of control it selectively applies the brakes on each wheel to bring the vehicle back into a straight line.…
NSW Minister for Roads and Ports, Duncan Gay, says that there are “delays in the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s system that are hurting the road freight industry.” Minister Gay has just acquired co-delegation powers to enabled the NSW’s road managers…
