Hello and welcome to Overdrive a program that broods over the world of cars and transport
I’m David Brown
In this program we have
- Safety prioritised with 5 stars for Toyota HiAce and Nissan Leaf EV, yet the opposite for Jeep Wrangler at 1 star (1:37)
- Jaguar and Chargefox agreement sparks Australia’s EV interest (2:15)
- Tesla reveals Model 3 Australian prices (3:07)
- Pricing for Swedish mid-sized S60 sedan and V60 wagon well below Germans (4:48)
- UTSA engineers develop inexpensive smart stop sign to improve rural road safety (5:58)
- TU Graz developing ‘predictive’ pedestrian crossing signals for Vienna (7:10)
- And Alan Zurvas has just witnessed a crash test. We find out what it was like and what is happening in the future (8:35)
- Rob, Alan and David discuss some news snippets (16:28)
- In Sydney they have a land mark called the Meccano set it’s an ancient structure to hold signs at traffic lights at a major intersection. They had to replace it and they chose to replicate the old, brutalist design from 1952. We find out why (20:06)
- Two motoring minutes
- Jeep’s problems with brash tests (15:25)
- VW Toureg (25:15)
- Remembering Dorothy Rowe and a new program to use car clubs to help those with depression (26:38)
- More discussion of motoring news (29:13)
- Rob Roads tests the BMW Z4 (33:26)
- Alan has been driving the Range Rover PHEV (38:55)
- And some quirky news with Brian Smith (42:14)
