March 2008 Archives

Staying to the end of this week’s theme, radar and how we should all learn to love its application in traffic law enforcement, here is the top ten tunes to drive to as voted by toase decening isteners to Planet Rock, the digital radio station no one has ever heard of:

You've bin had

Following on from yesterday’s I don’t believe feature, the Institute of Advanced Motorists, that worthy body that taught us in days of old how to drive while balancing a house brick on the transmission tunnel* claims that over 70% of motorists have come to love the speed camera as surely as we all came to love the bomb.

Flouting the law big style

Whatever the law is on driving while using a mobile it is being ignored.I say whatever because some drivers have been done for the most innocuous of things, moving a phone to the passenger seat for instance, while a growing number seem to think it’s year of the mobile and can’t get off the things even in the most distracting of circumstances, you know, upside down in a field and that sort of carry on.
But this one really beats me.

Cow or car-it's up to you

Apparently cows are now guilty of polar bear murder.
It turns out that each bovine gently ruminating pumps out more death gas than a car.

Scientists in California say they are on the verge of developing a device that reads minds.
Can you imagine being wired up to a machine on the dash giving you a picture of what other drivers are thinking?

Think of Norway and you don’t immediately associate it with cars. Oh dear no.
People who keep pet cod, yes, hugely expensive trips not to see the northern lights, yes. But cars? What up a fiord without a paddle? I don’t think so.

This has been a bad year for biofuels. What seemed like a good idea at the time has fallen foul, or even fowl, of a huge rise in the cost of grain and a sustained attack from the rainbow beards.
Added to that, people in emerging economies where the staple diet was boiled grass, have rightly decided that they deserve better than starvation in the streets for 40 hours a week making sustainable wooden washing machines.

Easter looms and with it the annual tour of Britain sets out as drivers who have spent the entire winter watching East Enders head off in search of Emmerdale. Sometimes with consequences of Coronation Street proportions.

‘Serious road accidents are caused by motorists driving with their rear suspension ‘bottoming out’ resulting in a loss of steering control, ineffective braking and raised headlights that blind oncoming drivers – but now there is a simple solution, claims a new report.’