For more than most spend on a bike itself, cyclists are being offered AIRhub – a front wheel that promises to slow them down. It might sound like an April Fool, but the AIRhub is an altogether serious training tool for professional cyclists. The high-tech equivalent of carrying rocks in your panniers, the smartphone-controlled AIRhub add up to 100 watts to…
Poor driving standards mean every cyclist could do with eyes in the back of their head. Now they can have them, with the iONu device developed by cycle insurer, The ETA. iONu is an inflatable mask that cyclists wear on the back of their heads to give approaching drivers the impression they are being watched. The ETA was inspired to…
Tailgating is a contributory factor in a significant number of collisions so business fleet operators are now being offered free training for their drivers. The Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) is offering free courses on behalf the Road Safety Trust. Employers with young, male drivers who undertake regular driving in light goods vehicles or cars during work, with significant mileage on…
Britain’s most radical automotive company is edging ever closer to full-scale production of a hydrogen car with a 300-mile range. Pay-as-you-go hydrogen car Riversimple aims to transform the way we use our cars by replacing outright ownership of diesel and petrol cars with hydrogen-powered vehicles you lease like a mobile phone. Customers will typically take a car for 1 – 3…
With festivals on the horizon, many are busy brushing last year’s mud off their wellies and planning what bands they’ll see. But with audience travel making up two-thirds of the sector’s carbon emissions, how we get to our favourite festivals has a huge environmental impact. There are 500 festivals in Britain, which researchers at Oxford University estimate emits 84,000 tons…
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