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Green driving: Test your knowledge

The greenest driving is that which is kept to a minimum; any trip replaced by walking or hopping on a bicycle will have a beneficial effect on your health, wallet and environment. Test your knowledge Green driving – keep your car or buy new? It would be greener and cheaper for many drivers to keep their car for as long as…

Reducing road danger: 1916 – 2016

When it comes to our perception of road danger, what a difference a century makes. Folk in 1916 were understandably horrified with any driver that ran over a child, whatever the circumstances. “If you look at newspapers from American cities in the 1910s and ’20s, you’ll find a lot of anger at cars and drivers, really an incredible amount,” says…

iPump: The world’s lightest bicycle pump

The iPump Floor is a bicycle track pump that weighs 35 grams – about the same as a standard light bulb. The tiny pump features a lightweight carbon fibre body and polyurethane high pressure hose, which is only 4 mm in diameter. The iPUMP FLOOR has been designed to be light, strong, compact and it’s diminutive size means it can be…

Five year olds are learning to drive

Putting five-year-old kids behind the wheel might produce better drivers, but will they be safer? A new type of miniature electric car has been launched to teach five-year-old children to learn to drive. The tiny vehicles share many features with a full-grown car including: independent suspension, disc brakes, rack and pinion steering, indicators, headlights and an electronic speedo. With a…

A flat earth for every age

The name Bill Nye might be unfamiliar, but in America he is well known as ‘The Science Guy’; a television presenter, writer and scientist with a reputation for taking a combative stance against those who doubt reasoned science. A fellow of the Committee for Sceptical Inquiry, an American organisation that aims to promote the use of reason in examining controversial and…