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6 votes
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Angry PM Scott Morrison accuses General Motors of letting Holden 'wither away' after taking $2bn in subsidies
Angry Scott Morrison accuses GM of letting Holden 'wither away' after taking $2bn in subsidies For context: Holden is an Australian home-grown brand. It became a subsidiary of General Motors in...
Angry Scott Morrison accuses GM of letting Holden 'wither away' after taking $2bn in subsidies
For context: Holden is an Australian home-grown brand. It became a subsidiary of General Motors in 1931, but it started manufacturing cars in Australia from 1948. The 1950s FJ Holden is an Australian icon. The Holden Commodore was the family sedan for Aussies all through the 1980s & 1990s. Aussie car lovers fell into two tribes: Holden or Ford. If you ask any Aussie to name a few famous Australian brands, Holden will get a mention.
General Motors stopped manufacturing Holdens in Australia a few years ago, but they assured us that Holdens would continue to be made (albeit overseas) and sold here.
Now the brand itself is being axed, at the end of next year.
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How would you reduce speeding by car drivers?
I was reading this twitter post and it made me wonder if you have any ideas to stop speeding by car drivers? Have any of these ideas been tried anywhere? I'm also interested in unintended...
I was reading this twitter post and it made me wonder if you have any ideas to stop speeding by car drivers? Have any of these ideas been tried anywhere? I'm also interested in unintended consequences.
https://twitter.com/agnessjonsson/status/1229103764843438086?s=20
Agnes @agnessjonsson
fact of the day: Sweden once experimented with a “speed camera lottery”. Those who drove within the speed limit were automatically entered into a drawing where the prize fund came from fines that speeders paid.
They tested it in a few different cities and I haven’t read the results of each one, but in Stockholm the average speed on the selected road decreased by 22 percent.
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Nokia and SoftBank reveal trials that they say successfully demonstrate that 5G technology can be safely and efficiently utilised for connected cars
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Tesla remotely disables Autopilot on used Model S after it was sold
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Swedish automaker Volvo Cars and its owner Chinese automaker Geely Holding are considering a merger deal
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A ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK will be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 at the latest, under government plans
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Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the punishing signal to curb noise pollution
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Toyota has a history of creating misleading electric vehicle ads, especially with its 'self-charging hybrid' ad campaign – Norway has now banned the campaign
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Uber tests feature allowing some California drivers to set fares
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Tesla and the State of Michigan makes deal to be able to sell and service vehicles within the state
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GM will resurrect the Hummer name on an all-electric pickup truck to be sold under the GMC brand
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New electric car sales in Norway rose by a third last year amid soaring demand for Tesla's vehicles – but the company will face a more competitive market in 2020
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How ride-hail companies can help, not hurt, cities
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Our Tesla Model 3 suffered a catastrophic failure while parked
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Thieves are using Bluetooth to target vehicle break-ins
4 votes -
Winter, all season and summer tires ❄ tested at 0c, 2c, 6c, 10c, 15c
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More Teslas on the road meant hours-long supercharger lines over Thanksgiving
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There are now traffic cameras that can spot you using your phone while driving
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Only two road traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were reported in Norway in 2019, making it the best-performing country for road safety
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Your car doesn’t need a touchscreen in it
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Volkswagen defends presence in China's Xinjiang amid uproar over Uighur abuses
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Cyber Rodeo at Giga Texas
33 votes -
Uber has been refused a licence to operate in London, UK
17 votes -
Tesla made a pickup truck for the end of the world
27 votes -
They turn ’49 Mercurys and Shelby Cobras into EVs, one Tesla carcass at a time
6 votes -
Self-driving Uber vehicle that killed woman in March 2018 could not detect jaywalking pedestrians
15 votes -
Nearly two-thirds of Uber customers don’t tip their drivers
15 votes -
This month, Las Vegas will let people pay for parking tickets with a food donation
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The complicated ethics of Tesla's Autopilot - It could save the lives of millions, but it will kill some people first
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Banning cars on San Francisco’s Market Street, once a radical idea, approved unanimously
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Every bus in the US deserves its own lane
9 votes -
What do you prefer diesel or petrol?
So what do you prefer a Diesel or a petrol ?, I personally love Diesel I think they are superior to petrol in many ways
9 votes -
Uber to limit drivers' app access to comply with NYC regulation
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Amazon will order 100,000 electric delivery vans from EV startup Rivian, Jeff Bezos says
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The future is four wheels, cyclists be damned
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The world's most important electric car is launching now, and it's not a Porsche or Tesla - The electric version of Renault's low-cost Kwid
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Driven to despair – road toll charges take centre stage in Norway vote
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Helsinki citizens give positive feedback to robot buses – majority said they felt safe and secure
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Tesla’s autopilot found partly to blame for 2018 Los Angeles Freeway crash
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As some locals claim sleep deprivation and environmental racism, I-70 construction will continue into the night for at least a year
6 votes -
Why Uber is a slow-motion tragedy for our cities
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Why speed kills cities: US cities are dropping urban speed limits in an effort to boost safety and lower crash rates. But the benefits of less-rapid urban mobility don’t end there
7 votes -
Uber quarterly results show $5.2 billion loss and slowest-ever revenue growth rate
7 votes -
Feds told Tesla to stop making “misleading statements” on Model 3 safety
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Ride-hail apps fret over New York City’s new regulations
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Finnish government plans to allow congestion charges in its cities
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Car boom brings gridlock misery to ‘green and happy’ Bhutan
3 votes -
Mapping the effects of the great 1960s ‘freeway revolts’
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Tesla’s ‘anemic’ high-margin model sales extends profit struggle
5 votes