There’s all sorts of cool gadgetry being attached to cars to make them safer for us to drive. None of them will make a single shred of difference to the average Aussie driver. If you think that’s not describing you — it almost certainly is. More »
Younger drivers pay more in car insurance because the statistics suggest that they’re riskier driving prospects. Part of that risk comes from electronic distractions such as text messaging. Starting from next year, Ford’s MyKey will enable parents to limit their children’s in-car access to obvious SMS and phone messages, with the prospect of blocking speeding also on the horizon. More »
Getting out of speeding tickets using a combination of savvy, hustle, gumption and sheer dumb luck might be on its way out thanks to Cordon, new radar system that tracks with Terminator-like accuracy tracking dozens of cars — and their licence plates — at a time. More »
Some cops have a tendency to ticket fix, or in layman’s terms, make tickets disappear. And though it’s a sweet perk for their friends and family, it’s sorta against the law too. So! The NYPD has come up with a new tracking system that’s trying to stop tickets from magically disappearing. More »
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In Finland there are cameras. Automated cameras. They observe the roads, watching for speeders. Nothing new, right? Wrong. These silent watchers can ding drivers for pretty much everything else too. More »
Getting a speeding fine is enough to drive anyone to road-rage, but Brian McCrary decided to do something entirely different with his rage. While browsing the local police department’s website, he saw the domain was close to expiring… More »
As though cameras on top of every traffic light weren’t bad enough already: there’s now a trial run of satellites that will catch you speeding, over a several-block range, from hundreds of miles up. Hope for clouds, I guess? More »
Another idiot roams the world in his speeding car. The world being the squarish state of Arizona. This guy has avoided 37 tickets totalling $US6700 using a monkey mask. Still, not a match to Animal in Germany. [Thanks gitemstevedave]
