Do you seem to collect bike lights, but lose the brackets? No problem – thingumy is a clever strap made from upcycled inner tubes that allows you to strap front lights of any size to the back of your hand and rear lights to your ankle. thingumy is adjustable so you can strap pretty much any bike light or small torch to the back of…
The French government looks likely to strip motorists of their driving licences when they are caught using their mobile phones at the wheel. The plan forms part of a range of new measures aimed at reducing road danger including a cut in speed limit on country roads to 80km/h. Driver’s caught using a mobile look likely to face a three-month suspension of their…
Could television inspire a programme of road danger reduction? We’ve lost count of the number of times David Attenborough’s Blue Planet has been mentioned in parliament since it highlighted catastrophic effects being wreaked upon our oceans by plastic waste. Whatever you make of Theresa May’s speech this week in which she said we should aim for a ban on single-use…
The threat from pavement parking and terror attacks involving cars could be dramatically reduced by a simple new device installed along kerbs that quickly punctures tyres. Catclaw is the size of half a small orange and is designed to be installed in its thousands along kerbs and pavements. When a car or lorry drives over a CatClaw, its weight…
Discussion about driverless car technology is defined at present by objections to the British government’s enthusiasm for it. Transport Secretary Chris Grayling predicts the market for autonomous vehicles could be worth £28 billion to Britain by 2035 and for that reason wants a central part in it. Opposition to the government’s view has succeeded in uniting petrol-heads with ardent campaigners for…
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