The Blindingly Obvious
Using a smartphone while driving is dangerous, apparently. Well, whodathunkit. The TRL has been researching something that we already knew. And Brian Milligan does a […]
Transport
That’s the AA off My List of Insurers
The AA is embracing Big Brother. The AA is set to launch a new insurance policy which uses sat-nav technology to track driver performance. The […]
Sorry, But No
As a general rule, I tend to avoid petitions. Usually they achieve nothing – their only real benefit being to vent one’s spleen publicly. From time […]
Scare Story Du Jour
Scooters are dangerous. In a typical “biking is dangerous” article we get the usual scary stuff. It’s easy to hop onto a scooter and kill […]
Fuss About Nothing
The scare story of today is that GSM-R will open the rail network to the risk of hacking. A shift to a mobile communications technology […]
Signalling Strike
I see that some of my erstwhile colleagues have walked out on strike over “career progression”. Someone more cynical might just take a peek at […]
Free Entertainment
I’ve been riding bikes long enough now not to be impressed when I see someone pulling a wheelie. However, the chap who did just that […]
More on Speed Limits
The Chief Constable of South Wales is opposed to the proposed raising of speed limits on the UK motorway system. His reasoning is that the […]
RoSPA Responds
RoSPA has been reading this blog… In response to my comments yesterday, Jo Bullock (for it was she who spake on the BBC – I […]
More Anti-Car Nonsense from the Groan
As is usual we get the “more regulation” brigade demanding, well, more regulation in the wake of the M5 crash. What happened was awful and […]