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Mayor of London may ban polluting diesel cars from City streets
Mayor of London may ban polluting diesel cars from City streets The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has hinted that he is considering banning polluting cars entirely from London's streets in an effort to combat growing pollution. The UK capital has already announced plans for drivers of some of the oldest and most polluting cars to pay a £10 "toxicity...
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Bad drivers could cost a fleet hundreds of euros a year in fuel
Bad drivers could cost fleet hundreds of euros a year in fuel New research by a UK company Direct Line has revealed that bad drivers spend an average of £560 (€660)more on fuel a year due to bad driving habits of excessive braking and acceleration. The study was based on about 319,000 journeys by almost 2,000 drivers and the final...
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M50 'orbital route' proposal to curb traffic chaos is slammed by expert
M50 'orbital route' proposal to curb traffic chaos is slammed by expert. Major public transport infrastructure is urgently needed in west Dublin to improve “the most congested part of Ireland”, according to one industry expert. Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has come out with a report that predicts significant infrastructure congestion on three of the major west Dublin Roads by 2023...
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Motorists could face fine and penalty points for driving too close to cyclists
Penalty points for driving too close to cyclists Fine Gael is seeking radical new laws to give penalty points to motorists who drive too close to cyclists. Fine Gael TDs Ciarán Cannon and Regina Doherty, the Government chief whip are publishing their new Road Traffic (Minimum Passing Distance of Cyclists) Bill 2017. It is their wish to see the bill...
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Ford engineers are falling asleep at the wheel of self-driving cars
Ford Falling asleep at the wheel in autonomous cars Ford have been developing and testing their own autonomous vehicles and they have discovered during research that their engineers have been falling asleep at the wheel in Level 3 automated cars. There are five different categories or level of automation in vehicles and the Level 3 cars require both human and...
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Banks and insurers are being warned about the overuse of vehicle tracking devices on customers cars
Vehicle tracking devices Hundreds of companies in industries ranging from banking to insurance have been warned about the use of vehicle tracking device by private investigators. In what is being called an unprecedented move, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has written to about 400 separate institutions and companies in a bid to tackle the illegal use of "tracking...
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Tesla driver heroically uses his car to stop a runaway Volkswagen
Hero Tesla driver uses his car to stop a runaway Volkswagen A Tesla Model S owner has heroically used his car to stop a runaway Volkswagen on an Autobahn in Germany The Tesla driver made headlines this week when he used his €80,000+ electric car to bring a runaway Volkswagen Passat to a halt on a German Motorway. The Tesla...
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Children unrestrained in a car is a form of 'child abuse' says Road Safety Expert
Leaving a child unrestrained in a car is tantamount to ‘child abuse’ according to a road safety expert. This comes on the foot of a recent photograph tweeted by the Gardaí of a seven-seater car which was stopped with four children under twelve years of age sitting in the back and not one restrained in child safety seat or seatbelts....
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Ford to develop virtual pothole detection and avoidance map for your car
Virtual pothole detection developed by Ford A new virtual pothole map is currently being developed by Ford which will show drivers, in real-time on in-car displays any potholes on the road. The interactive pothole map doesn’t only show where the holes are on the road but also how bad they are and suggest alternative routes. The new mapping technology is...
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Motor insurers accused of 'hardening their attitude' towards drivers rather than easing up on premiums
Motor insurers accused of 'hardening their attitude' towards drivers rather than easing up on premiums Insurance companies are not co-operating with the Government's attempts to bring in measures to slow down the rapidly rising motor premiums. It appears that rather than easing up on driver's, insurance companies have “hardened their attitude” towards consumers according to the Chairman of the Oireachtas...