Car News recent articles in category Human Interest


  • Project Edward. European Day Without A Road Deaths

    European Day Without Any Road Deaths MyVehicle.ie wants to do its part to help make this Thursday a European Day Without A Road Death Seventy people die every day on Europe’s roads, 110 people have been killed on Irish roads so far this year (as of 14th September). This is 22 less than in the same period in 2016 but...


  • Domino’s and Ford to test self-driving pizza delivery cars

    Domino’s and Ford to test self-driving pizza delivery cars Ford and Domino’s Pizza will collaborate soon to test self-driving pizza delivery cars in the State of Michigan in the USA. The two companies are trying to better understand how customers respond to and interact with autonomous vehicles. In the next few week, randomly selected Domino’s customers in Ann Arbor, Michigan...

  • The next media revolution looks likely to come from driverless cars

    The next media revolution looks likely to come from driverless cars Who'll want to listen to the radio when you could play Gran Turismo in the car? Whether we like it or not, driverless cars are here to stay and within a decade we will see a huge impact on the motor industry with the introduction of autonomous vehicles. As...

  • Phone talk-walk ban

    As we all know, using a mobile while driving is four times more likely to cause us to crash and even more startling, is that drivers who text and drive are a staggering twenty-three times more likely to have a crash. The evidence then is clear; texting while driving is very dangerous but what about texting while walking? While countries...

  • Dublin commuters are reporting long delays with new car restrictions on the quays

    Dublin commuters are reporting long delays with new car restrictions on the quays Cars have been banned from turning right onto to O’Connell Bridge at Bachelors Walk since Sunday and as a result motorists are reporting long delays. The traffic situation will become even more acute when the summer holidays come to an end are the school are back. As...

  • Danny Healy-Rae Blames The Bad Road Conditions in Kerry on the Fairies

    News broke all over Irish Twitter yesterday morning, that Independent Kerry TD, Danny Healy-Rae has blamed the poor road conditions on fairies. Danny Healy-Rae is no stranger to controversy and alternative opinions. Regarding one particular road condition, Danny said that the disappearance and reappearance of a dip in a Kerry road are due to the presence of fairy forts. The...

  • Whisky is the new fuel propelling cars of the future

    The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher once said, "You must have whisky to give you energy." She may very well have been right as a Scottish startup just last week became the first company to successfully fuel a car using whisky. Yes, you hear it correctly, Whiskey, or more accurately, a whisky residue biofuel. Professor Martin Tangney, the founder and president...

  • Engineers want multiple toll’s and a change of speed limit on the M50

    Engineers are saying that variable speed limits and multiple points of tolling should be introduced on the M50 in order to ease congestion. This is the stated opinion released this week by Engineers Ireland in their infrastructure report The State of Ireland 2017. As anyone from Dublin will tell you, the M50 motorway is massively congested at most times of...