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Car drivers face £200million electric scooter crash bill 0
- BUSINESS
- August 9, 2020
Car drivers face £200million electric scooter crash bill as they are set to pay higher insurance premiums, warn industry chiefs The Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) has paid out more than £100 million so far But it estimates bill will balloon to between £200 million and £2 billion a year This could lead to a £50
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British racing drivers on show at Silverstone 0
- BUSINESS
- March 11, 2020
When Indira Flack started photographing British racing drivers, she wasn’t sure who – if anyone – would get to see the pictures. Yet now 100 of them can be seen at The Silverstone Experience, which celebrates the past, present and future of British motorsport, and was recently officially opened by the Duke of Sussex and
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Drivers go wrong way on M5 to avoid accident queue 0
- BUSINESS
- November 16, 2019
Image copyright Highways Agency Image caption Highways England urged drivers to be patient during stoppages Drivers have been warned not to break the law by going the wrong way on the M5 to avoid long queues. Highways England said it had seen “traffic driving the wrong way into Avonmouth” following an accident northbound between J18
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VW Data:Lab tests whether algorithms can be better drivers than humans | Data 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- November 4, 2019
Motorsports have a long track record of influencing road car development, from the 1912 French Grand Prix-winning Peugeot that was the first car equipped with dual overhead camshafts, to the 3D-printed components that helped Volkswagen set a new record time on the fabled Goodwood hill climb in July. This year, the Volkswagen Data:Lab attempted to add
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Window frames fall off truck into the path of an HGV and drivers forced to pull up on the M6 0
- BUSINESS
- August 14, 2019
Terrifying moment window frames fall off a truck into the path of an HGV and drivers are forced to pull up on the M6 because there is no hard shoulder Shane Carey, 51, caught the footage on a dashcam installed in his 44-tonne lorry He was travelling on the southbound motorway near Sandbach, Cheshire The hard shoulder had
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Young drivers may be banned from road at night under safety plan | World news 0
- BUSINESS
- July 17, 2019
Young drivers could be banned from the road at night under plans to improve safety, the Department for Transport has announced. Figures show that a fifth are involved in an accident during their first year behind the wheel, and ministers are considering introducing a graduated licence system for novice drivers in England. The scheme could
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