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If you wear your seat belt under your arm in the UK, you could be fined £100
If you wear your seatbelt like this in the UK, you could be fined £100 Drivers are being stopped by UK police and given the choice of a fine or some distressing road safety videos because they did not wear their seatbelts correctly while driving. Everyone knows you can be fined for not wearing a seatbelt, but not many drivers...
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What does your car know about you?
How much does a car know about its driver? The Jastine Valdez case has flagged up some privacy issues surrounding electronic vehicle data. What does your car know about you? The answer is, probably quite a lot. If your car is modern and has a big screen and a smartphone link, the likelihood is that your car is recording a...
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New kind of Car theft
Car thieves using new kinds of tactics Just when we thought Car theft was a thing of the past, hackers found a new Hi-tech way of getting past the System. If somebody mentioned a few years ago that a car could be stolen using a laptop, we wouldn’t have believed them. But these latest car thefts in the USA challenged...
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Swiss police to get Tesla Model X police cars for active duty
Swiss police from the Basel-Stadt police force are ordering Tesla Model X vehicles for active duty. The first of these will be delivered later on this year with seven included in the initial order. The new Swiss police cars will be cleaner, cheaper, and way faster than the patrol cars they are currently using. The decision to replace current diesel-powered vehicles...
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What is Car Clocking?
What is car clocking? Car clocking is when a car's odometer (mileage recorder) has been put back or reduced so that it appears to have less miles on the clock. It is an offence under consumer law for a trader to give false, misleading or deceptive information about the history of a car, for example, if the car was previously...
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Gardaí seize two cars as ‘phone a friend’ goes badly wrong
Gardaí seize two cars as ‘phone a friend’ goes badly wrong A man got more than he bargained for when he went to pick up his stranded friend in Co Louth on Monday morning. Previously, Gardaí in Dundalk had seized a car after they discovered the driver had no insurance. When the driver found that he was then in need...
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Several cars burnt out during snow time disturbances in Tallaght
Several cars burnt out during snow time disturbances in Tallaght Gardaí believe that several vehicles burnt out in Tallaght were set alight in the wake of the looting of nearby Lidl store A number of vehicles were destroyed by fire in disturbances in the Tallaght area of west Dublin on Friday night. The cars were left stranded by their owners...
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Car owners who allow learner drivers to drive unaccompanied will face prosecution
Unaccompanied learner drivers As many learner drivers know only too well, it is currently illegal for them to drive a vehicle unaccompanied and must by law have a full-licenced driver beside them. What's more, that full-licenced driver must have their own licence for at least two years’ standing. In light of this fact, the Minister for Transport, Shane Ross is...
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Survey reveals nearly a third of cars vandalised
Motorists are being urged to take necessary precautions in protecting their cars from damage as a new survey reveals nearly a third of cars are vandalised. It has been found that almost a third of car owners have found signs of vandalisation on their cars at some stage in their driving careers. The survey was carried out by AA Car...
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Demolition Duterte Derby! President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte destroys luxury cars in his war on crime
The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte has personally overseen the destruction of about 30 luxury vehicles that were believed to have been illegally imported into the country. Road rollers crushed P61.6 million worth of cars. Duterte said: “You want imported cars? Pay import duties first,” The Commissioner of the BoC (Bureau of Customs) Isidro Lapeña has said that his...