Parking Permit Lottery! Authorities Always Win

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15 Jun 2015
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On-Street car parking

What you pay for your annual parking permit in the UK depends highly on the area you live, and the vehicle you drive   Just like any other kind of lottery, the parking permit prices act as postcode lottery. Why is that? Because the place you live in, the car you drive, how long you […]

A Billion Pound Road Closure in UK

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25 May 2015
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Road Closed

England had 500k+ road closures which cost the country estimated one billion pounds last year   The UK road safety chief has called for action after more than 500k road closures in 2014 which cost them more than one billion pounds. The report shows that wild animals, unsupervised and unattended children, wandering pedestrians and road […]

Google Self-Driving Cars aren’t that Safe After All

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13 May 2015
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Google Self-DrivingCar

Light damage but no injuries, Google claims, but the question is: Are Autonomous Cars Safe? In six years of Google Inc. experimenting on autonomous cars only 11 traffic accidents with light damage have been reported. There were no injuries sustained by the victims. Since September, California Department of Motor Vehicles has been notified of three […]

2015 BMW 3-Series – New Engines and Plug-in Hybrid

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11 May 2015
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BMW 3-Series

  BMW has updated its engine line-up and added a plug-in hybrid for 2015 models   BMW has pulled the wraps off the new 3-Series in Munich. At the first glance it may not be impressive, but BMW has revived the 3-Series by making some imperative tweaks to keep up with the competition up in […]

How Dry Driving Can Be As Dangerous As Drunk Driving?

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29 Apr 2015
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Drinking water behind the wheel

Driving without consuming enough water is equally dangerous as drunk driving and dehydrated drivers make twice as many mistakes   Dehydration is equally dangerous as consuming alcohol that’s according to a study done by the Physiology and Behaviour. Motorists who drive being dehydrated make twice as many mistakes on the road as of the normal […]

Beware! Speeding Can Cost You £84,057 For Real

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2 Apr 2015
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Driver fining

Over speeding in Finland can cost you £84,057 even if you are cruising 10 miles over the limit. £39,250 isn’t the thing of past   You may agree that going 10mph over the speed limit in a 50 mile zone can cost you about £100 and three points on your licence. Depending on circumstances, there is […]

The Most Common Types of Replacement Engines

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31 Mar 2015
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Types of Replacement engines

Here we explain reconditioned, rebuilt, second hand and new engines. what are they and how are they different from each other?   After-market car engines have different names like used, reconditioned, rebuilt or new. The need to compare these types came up after our customers asked us questions on how to differentiate between all these […]

Budget 2015: Halt on Fuel Duty Continues Plus £100m for Autonomous Cars

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20 Mar 2015
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Budget Osborne 2015

George Osborne sets aside £100m for driverless cars and a halt on fuel duty for 2015   Drivers were at the end of the list of priorities for Chancellor George Osborne in the latest budget speech. The Budget 2015 gives more funding for driverless cars in the UK while they have put a halt on […]

European Police to Trace Speeding Brits

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16 Mar 2015
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SPeeding Motorists

New Laws allow European police to hunt down Brits for speeding in Europe and nab them with the help of DVLA   EU parliament has now voted in favour of the new laws to empower European police. The police will be able to hunt down the foreigner drivers for over speeding and fine them on […]

European Parliament will Outlaw Mileage Correction Companies by 2018

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23 Feb 2015
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Illegal Mileage Clocking

European Parliament says mileage correction companies to be wound up by 2018 The European Parliament has announced that it will ban firm which offer to wind back the mileage on cars and other road vehicles. It is commonly known as clocking. It was pushed through by a Czech motoring organisation which is equivalent to UK’s […]