The Shield TL is a bicycle light with a difference: Its distinctive form promises to make the bike highly visible to car radars – a digital shield to protect cyclists. The Collision Avoidance Systems (CAS) fitted to new cars is a virtual co-pilot for drivers, a radar that looks out for potential hazards on the road ahead – great if…
How clean is the air where you live? Air pollution is rarely highlighted to prospective house buyers, but as air quality deteriorates and the link between pollutants and poor health strengthens, expect there to be increasing interest in maps such as this. The map at aqicn.org/map/europe provides daily updates on air quality around Europe. Air quality is rated as good…
Electric cars are often dismissed as novelty vehicles, but for most drivers, a spin in the BMW i3 will be a revelation. The BMW i-range represents only 1 per cent of the company’s global sales at present, but the car maker predicts that EVs and hybrids will surpass internal combustion engine vehicle sales by 2040. If more drivers could get behind the wheel of the i3,…
Future generations will react to today’s ambivalence towards road danger in the same way as we recoil at the thought of the open sewers of Victorian London. So says Danny Dorling, a professor from Sheffield University argues road safety is a public health not a transport issue, and until it is properly addressed people will continue to die. Compared to cancer, and…
National Liftshare Week is a time for celebrating and promoting the idea of car sharing to cut carbon emissions, reduce traffic congestion and increase social cohesion. Recently popularised by James Corden and a host of tuneful celebrities, car pooling, ride sharing or lift sharing is a simple concept: get people together who make the same trips, and, where possible, allow…
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