Newswheel staff :: 19 March 2007 :: Filed under Europe & UK, Safety
Two out of three Germans reckon a speed limit should be imposed on their nation’s famously unrestricted autobahns. So says a recent poll conducted by German TV station ZDF. The poll follows pressure from EU environment minister Stavros Dimas who believes high autobahn speeds are inefficient…
Newswheel staff :: 21 April 2006 :: Filed under Safety
Dangerous driving under the influence used to mean boozed-up punters parking their cars in the scenery at high speed. But this is the year 2006, so drink driving is out (ish) and GPS-guided idiocy is in. Reports of dozy drivers blindly following the directions spewed out by their sat-nav systems are on the up. The latest comes from a town in Wiltshire which is currently fishing two cars a day out of a river as drivers blithely ignore the torrent in front of them in favour of following the soothing instructions from their dashboards…
Newswheel staff :: 28 March 2006 :: Filed under Europe & UK, Safety
Pope prays. World turns. Day follows night. That a recent survey conducted by independent car warranty provider Warranty Direct found that 70 per cent of UK garages over charge when secret-shopped by a member of the public is hardly shocking news. And given the nature of Warranty Direct’s business, the cynic would argue it has a vested interest in trying to shame garages into charging less. But it’s not exactly reassuring, all the same…
Newswheel staff :: 03 February 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz S-Class, Europe & UK, Safety, US
Infrared night vision in your car. Gimmick or essential safety accoutrement? The jury is out. But it certainly seems like a classic nuclear deterrent type of tech: if your enemy has it, then you must have it, too. Last week we reported that BMW will begin fitting its Night Vision system to production cars from March. And sure enough, Mercedes-Benz has its own nocturnal vision rig ready to go for the new S-Class, as demoed in a new video.
Newswheel staff :: 26 January 2006 :: Filed under BMW, BMW 5 Series, Europe & UK, Safety, US
Do you have trouble seeing in the dark. Those high-power Xenons not doing it for you? Then you need BMW’s Night Vision technology. Probably. And it’s going into production BMW’s from March.
Newswheel staff :: 23 January 2006 :: Filed under Safety
Speed cameras suck. And the UK penalty points system isn’t working. So say all of us, according to research carried out by insurance company A&A Group. Pretty much what you’d expect motorists to say. But in the battle against the scameras, every little helps…
Newswheel staff :: 20 January 2006 :: Filed under Roadster, BMW, Europe & UK, Safety, US
We’re “incredibly angry.” So say a group of BMW Z8 owners in the US. It seems the shock absorber towers on BMW’s low volume alloy sportscar are prone to distortion, which in turn causes upper body panels to lose alignment. Smithers, prepare the legal team…
Newswheel staff :: 06 December 2005 :: Filed under BMW, BMW 3 Series, BMW 5 Series, Renault, Renault Espace, Renault Megane, Europe & UK, Safety, US
Car manufacturers wear their Euro NCAP crash test scores with pride. But does a perfect five star rating mean anything in a real crash? Maybe not, according to safety specialists at VW. They reckon some manufacturers are engineering their cars to deliver good NCAP results at the cost of real-world safety.
Newswheel staff :: 31 October 2005 :: Filed under Europe & UK, Safety
The Euro NCAP assessment programme has totalled another fleet of cars in the name of safety. This time round, several Daihatsu Sirions, Fiat Cromas and Toyota Yarises have been trashed. Like most current models, the cars performed well in terms of adult passenger safety, slightly less impressively for child occupant safety and downright poorly for pedestrian safety.
|
|
©2005 Newswheel Limited. All rights reserved. Designed and produced by Plum Digital Media. Powered by Matchbox - speed: 0.658 seconds
