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Very few of us would complain about speed cameras placed in areas where there are a lot of pedestrians, especially elderly and children, if they help to avoid accidents. What most of us object to is the placing of cameras where clearly they are only there to make money. So how would you feel if information from your sat nav was being sold to police to Read more »

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Insurance company Swiftcover has revealed which car is most likely to be vandalised. It listed the top 5 vandalised cars with the number one slot being taken by the Lexus IS. They suggested that this could be down to the Steve Coogan character Alan Partridge who was linked to the car in his series. The top 5 cars in its Vandalism Index are: Read more »

I reported recently on clocking, it would seem that others are reading my blogs as the Office of Fair Trading has issued a report that reveals there are more than 50 firms in the UK selling mileage correction (clocking) services. As a result they have called on the Government to act and close the loophole that enables these companies to quite legally reset a Read more »

The argument over motorway speed limits continues with a number of people now pushing to increase it from 70 to 80 miles per hour. Fleet operators are generally against an increase as they feel it wouldn’t make drivers any more productive or arrive at destinations any quicker. There would also be an increase in operating costs as higher speeds Read more »

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Warnings have again been issued about a potential killer whilst driving. This isn’t the first time I’ve reported this hidden danger but it seems that the problem continues to grow whilst drivers are unaware of the condition they have that could endanger them and other road users. The condition is called sleep apnoea and is suffered by 800,000 Read more »

Graham Hill’s gadget of the week is a great new mobile phone hands free system called the Jabra Freeway speakerphone. It’s a Bluetooth connected hands-free device, voice activated with the capability of turning itself off automatically. The unit is fixed to the sun visor and can be connected to your phone by simply hitting the voice Read more »

What car do you think drivers voted their number one in this years Auto Express Driver Power survey? Wrong! It’s the Skoda Superb. The poll ranks the findings of 23,000 readers. It takes the top 100 models revealing what drivers love and hate about their cars and ranks them in order. For the third year running Skoda has topped the manufacturers list Read more »

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Sometimes I feel that technology has gone too far with some safety and comfort features taking over your driving and control of the car. This was illustrated recently when Mercedes had to recall 18,000 Mercedes M Class because the cruise control wouldn’t disengage when you tapped the brake pedal, as it’s meant to. If you’ve driven a car with cruise Read more »

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Halfords have warned drivers about making sure they don’t cut costs in the area of servicing their cars. Obviously they would as they are suffering substantial drops in turnover but the serious side is that cars are probably getting quite dangerous if they aren’t being serviced. Chief Executive at Halfords said that their engineers were seeing cars turn up Read more »

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Whilst the debate continues as to whether the future for the car is electric or hydrogen Toyota have announced that their new family sized electric car to challenge the Nissan Leaf will make full use of many of the apps that are available via Microsoft as a result of a joint venture. The idea is to make the new cars ‘information terminals’ with new apps that Read more »