The colder, darker days are now upon us, with the winter solstice (the shortest day) less than a month away. For those in the hotter bits of our country, this will come as a bit of a relief. However, for those of us who are tucked down in the more temperate parts, winter can bring some motoring challenges.
Whether we do our driving on the open road or around town or a mixture of both, the cops and other experts tell us that we ......
May the 11th 2011 saw the launch of a new initiative by the United Nations (UN) in combination with the World Health Organisation (WHO) known as the Decade of Action For Road Safety. This is an international movement to reduce the number of people who are killed on the roads. Let’s face it: we love driving, but it’s one of the riskiest things we’ll do, according to the statistics, and this isn’t just a problem for Australia. The UN wants organisations and ......
Honda is set to join the likes of Rolls-Royce, Saab and BMW. You may be wondering what a typical middle-class family drive like Honda (which is not to run Honda down – they’re good cars that do the job they’re designed to do with flying colours, i.e. getting families from A to B in comfort and safety at an affordable price) is doing alongside luxurious European models. But we’re not talking about cars here: we’re talking about aeroplanes.
Yes, Honda is set to launch ......
We’ve already heard of Volkswagen and General Motors experimenting towards driverless cars, and now Google has joined in.
Google? What the search engine?
Yes indeed. Their involvement stemmed from their camera cars travelling around the world taking pictures of people’s front yards.
But now this technology has gone a lot, lot further.
We have already seen some embryonic “driverless” options move into production – adaptive cruise control is one example, but that’s nothing compared with the ......
The Gillard Government announced two pieces of legislation in the 2011 budget that might have escaped the attention of many, as they received very little press attention.
1. NOVATED LEASES
A novated lease is a method of financing the purchase of a motor vehicle through your employer that can give some substantial financial benefits to you. But there have been a few drawbacks and complications, as the net impact on the employer and the owner has been dependant on the number of kilometres travelled each ......
There are many of us out there with ‘Houdini’ children that can climb or escape from anything your adult brain can think of. The problem with that is safety of your most precious cargo. Strapping your child into a secure safety seat is still the most highly regarded method of securing your children against the unforseen. Today’s regulations also state that you must have children up to the age of 7 in at least a safety ‘booster’ seat if they are over 15kgs ......
Australia’s law enforcers are at it again! Not satisfied in raising a hornet’s nest over the proposed banning of mobile phones, we have reports that the Queensland constabulary are fining drivers over the use of their portable sat/nav devices! (and from the comments from some of our readers it seems it’s not only the Queensland Constabulary)
The police assert that if you locate your sat/nav within the sweep of the windscreen ......
General Motors has just posted first quarter earnings of US$3.2 billion, its fifth consecutive profitable quarter and its best quarter in more than a decade.
General Motors was one of the most high profile bankruptcies of the GFC. But after a massive sell off and plant closures it has now emerged as a meaner, greener and substantially more profitable outfit.
It’s not out of the woods yet though, as it still has massive debt ......
For a lot of us, the desire to travel is stacked up heavily in our genes. Then there are those of us who would much rather stay at home. Some of us may be partial to eating rather well. And then there are those who are happy with cold chicken noodles and the odd flaccid carrot. So what happens for those people where much travel and eating heartily go hand in hand? First of all, count yourselves rather lucky and see ......
