Quirky Archive

News including GM sued for autonomous vehicle collision, cars that detect emotions and how Australia’s old vehicle fleet is costing both lives and money. We ask if trucks can show us how car safety should be done – or is it the other way round? We road test a fast family ferrier, the Renault Megane

News including a data breach by Uber, a new biofuel production system, the decline of “Big Oil”, Tesla’s new competitor, and what the NBN has to do with transport infrastructure. We discuss a report on the future of how we get around “New mobility now, a practical guide”. We road test one of Lexus’ best

List all your Scottish jokes here! Electric cars may receive most of the attention within the realm of alternative propulsion methods, but liquid hydrocarbon fuels will be with us for many decades to come. The challenge then becomes how to reduce the carbon footprint of extracting, transporting, refining, and burning those fuels to reduce the

Transport superstitions Do you have any superstitious actions before you travel? An elderly woman has delayed a plane for more than five hours, after she attempted to throw a handful of coins into its engine for good luck. The passenger was boarding China Southern Airlines flight, from Shanghai to Guangzhou, when she threw nine coins