Middle-lane hogs are now being taken to court. But will this persuade them to actually move their steering wheels? Driving is a wonderfully useful thing. It gets you from A to B without breaking a sweat, without getting cold or wet, and without having to listen to other people eat… Read More »The Driverless Driver
Mark Simpson on the lost glamour of Leicester Forest East services Leicester Forest East, situated – or rather, squeezed – between J21 and J21a on the M1, contains a slightly interesting paradox to those sufficiently undulled by the boredom of motorway driving and an entire family pack of Haribos to… Read More »Fine Dining Over the Fast Lane
Mark Simpson on the information overload facing today’s drivers Before we all started zooming around cyberspace and endlessly fiddling with games, apps and cool lock screens on our smartphones, the most exciting sense of interactive information – of hardcore control – that most people who weren’t actually fighter pilots or… Read More »Gauging the Future
When it comes to minor bumps when parking are you a bit of a Penny? When no one’s looking? In the long-running TV sit-com Big Bang Theory, Penny the failed actress and Leonard’s on-off girlfriend, asks “What’s so great about being grown-up? Have insurance, pay mortgages, leave one of those… Read More »The Etiquette of Denting
While looking for an in-car mobile phone holder recently – an endless task since none of them ever seem to really work – I came across something which for the first time in years threatened to actually make that little, forgotten horizontal slot in the middle of your dashboard useful.… Read More »Moving Music – A History of ICE