Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that looks at the factors affecting our attitude and actions to motoring and transport.
I’m David Brown
And in this program, we look at news stories with including:
- MIT’s new self-driving car navigates without road markings
- Sweden builds life-size slot-car track for long-distance electric-car charging
- Despite government efforts, keyless ignitions linked to carbon monoxide deaths
- Elon Musk envisions $1 rides to use Boring Company tunnels
- Shell Airflow Starship semi truck leaves San Diego on record fuel-economy run
- China reduces import duties on cars
We have a lovely chat with motoring commentator Will Hagon about the early history the imaginative, ingenious car company Alvis that started in 1919.
And Brian Smith and Errol Smith and I take a merry, look at some unusual stories of the day including
- Royal wedding cars
- Drunk mower driver arrested after cutting someone else’s grass
