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Convicted drink-drivers to receive a mandatory road ban
Drink-drivers will now recieve mandatory road bans In a zero-tolerance move, the Transport Minister Shane Ross has announced that convicted drink drivers will receive mandatory roads bans. Ross told the Oireachtas Transport Committee that the current obligatory three points “sends out the message that it is not a serious offence”. At this present time, the law says that drivers caught...
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Will you need a Driving Licence for a Self-Driving Car?
Will you need a Driving Licence for a Self-Driving Car? Future generations of motorists may find they will not need a driving licence, as we know it today. The first driving licences in the world were issued back in 1903 in the United Kingdom and Ireland. If your car can drive itself and has a robot driver, why would you...
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DNP develops 'electronic sunshade' for cars
Electronic sunshade for cars Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) Co Ltd in Japan has developed a new electronic sunshade for the driver’s seat of a car. As drivers, we often have to adjust the angle of the sunshade by hand, and sometimes this can be quite precarious while driving, especially if the seat is positioned nearer the steering wheel. The panel...
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Insurance industry bracing for major change with the arrival of Self-Driving Cars?
Major changes could affect insurers with the arrival of Self-Driving Cars Will the inevitable arrival of autonomous vehicles on a mass scale send the auto insurance industry over a cliff? Some are saying that if you have a motor insurance business it may not exist in 20 years. Why? You can blame the seismic shift that is occurring in the...
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Phone app pays people £10 to snitch on illegally parked cars
UK phone app to pay £10 to snitchs A private car park company is offering £10 to users who take photos of illegally parked cars on private land through a new app. Car Park Management has launched an app that automatically produces parking tickets of up to £100. The UK based company runs car parks for the likes of Tesco...
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Motorists shunning diesel cars while eco-friendly sales rise
Motorists shunning diesel cars while eco-friendly sales rise The move against diesel fuel is accelerating.Industry figures in the UK are suggesting that motorists are shunning diesel cars, as they turn to buying more eco-friendly cars. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders in the UK (SMMT) said that 78,778 diesel cars were sold in January, a drop of 4.3% on...
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Back to the Future! The Top Ten Hydrogen Powered Cars
Back to the Future! The Top Ten Hydrogen Powered Vehicles Japanese car maker Honda and the American giant, General Motors, are investing $85 million to mass produce the hi-tech that will power hydrogen cars by 2020. Honda and GM aren't the only ones exploring the potentiality of hydrogen-powered cars. Many other automakers are seeing a future in them alongside electric...
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Autonomous Cars Will self Learn Like Mobile Phones
Self Learning Autonomous Cars At the moment we get daily updates from our smartphones for our apps and the operating systems even getting these updates while we sleep. It is proposed that we will also get automated updates for our smart cars in the future which will help the car to handle cyclists, dogs, balls rolling into the path of...
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Daimler to build electric cars in existing Mercedes plants
Daimler to build electric cars in existing Mercedes plants The German carmaker Daimler (DAIGn.DE) is planning to build their new electric cars in existing Mercedes plants by integrating them with serial production of cars with combustion engines, the group said. Markus Schaefer, Mercedes-Benz Cars production chief said on Wednesday"In this way, we are taking advantage of the opportunities offered by...
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Dublin Bus to follow the example of London: Stopping cash entirely as part of a new plan to reduce travel time.
Dublin Bus to follow the example of London: For a long time now, Dublin Bus has been encouragingcustomers to switch from cash to Leap cards.The National Transport Authority (NTA) plans for all commuters to be using the Leap card or a new “account-based” ticketing system, within the next three to five years. NTA chief executive Anne Graham said: "We have...