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When the trains are down, everyone ends up on the road. Which means that lately, when there have been a lot of track works and train line closures, there has been a lot more traffic.…

When you get a tow bar for your vehicle, it's important to think about the ways that changes the space your vehicle takes up. It's easy to fall into the habits and muscle memory that…

When you're reversing with mirrors, you have to constantly glance around to get a wide-angle view of what's behind you. If you want to look at what's behind you and to your left, you have…

Driving off-road can be a thrilling way to explore the wilderness, but if you’re not careful, it can also be highly destructive. Many animals make their homes off the beaten track, and endangered plants still…

Rear vision cameras help keep your care safe when you lend it out If you've been driving in your vehicle for a while, then you tend to get a sense of its quirks and foibles.…

When you think camouflage, chances are that you don’t think of a car park. You probably think about wildlife, using evolutionary defence mechanisms to avoid detection by predators. Zebras and chameleons come to mind. Or…

I'm kind of a science fiction buff. And when you're watching Star Trek, one thing you notice is that at the helm of a starship, there are all sorts of sensors and readouts that tell…

Some driveways are just impossible to turn around in. They seem to obey some sort of twisted, warped geometry, like an MC Escher artwork or a bent region of space-time too close to a black…

We live in an age where there are cameras everywhere. Just look at Google maps and you'll realise that there are literally camera vans on every street. We have surveillance cameras on most street corners,…

Parking can be stressful enough, but reversing out of a packed car park can be a real nightmare. Even if you managed to get into a spot fine, people can park super close to you…

When you're driving around sunrise or sunset, glare from the sun can be a serious safety hazard. And even though it's still Daylight Savings Time, we're now past the halfway point to the equinox which…

I know that I sometimes might seem to harp on about bad turning circles, but I've driven a car that has trouble doing a u-turn even on fairly wide roads, and having a turning circle…