When was the last time you met a rude driver on the road? If you have been driving in Houston lately then the chances are that it wasn’t too long ago.
Category Archives: Musings
5 amazing facts about driving licences
The driving licence has evolved a great deal since its introduction, and now, in the UK, it will be used to reduce fraud and improve speed and accuracy in motor insurance. From Summer 2014, a joint initiative between the DVLA, the […]
Would you like to drive a star’s old car?
News that Keith Richards’ old Ferrari Dino was up for auction made me wonder whether it would be a good idea to buy a star’s old car.
Now that’s a pothole! [Video]
Have you ever been driving along and almost run into a giant pothole? With the roads in the UK seemingly getting worse all the time there is a good chance that you have.
Could this be a cure for car sickness?
Have you ever suffered from car sickness? I have to confess that I still cringe when I recall the school trip to the zoo in which I left the inside of the bus looking like the aftermath of an explosion […]
Are there ghost cars on the road? [Video]
Are the streets filled with ghost cars? It’s not normally a question I would ask but this video spooked me out a little.
What would you do if an out of control cement truck came straight at you?
Have you ever sat in your car and thought, “Good lord, there is a rather large and frankly out of control cement truck heading straight towards me”?
Which car parts could you do without?
There was a story in the news recently about a guy who got stopped by police driving a “skeleton car”.
Happiness is a car called Hamlet
This month marks the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth. To celebrate, we’ve revisited one of the most famous soliloquies he wrote – Hamlet’s famous ‘To be or not to be’. With apologies to the bard, here’s our variation on […]
How should you react to bad drivers around you? [Videos]
It is a sad fact of life that the world is filled with bad drivers. At various points of your driving career people will cut you up, tailgate you and generally do lots of silly things that make your blood […]
Could you drive wearing a drunk suit? [Video]
A recent Ford experiment saw a driver put on a drunk suit and get behind the wheel. What’s a drunk suit? You may well ask that question with a vague flicker of interest but please pay attention now. It’s far […]
Unbelievable dangerous driver punishments around the world!
Do you tut at the lenient sentences handed out to this country’s mad, bad and dangerous drivers? Hey, you should move to Saudi Arabia…
Dogs alone in cars. That’ll end well.
What does your dog do when you go for a drive and then leave them in the car alone for a while? I only ask because a boxer called Fern just got kind of famous in the last couple of […]
The sledgehammer approach to dealing with annoying car problems
Have you ever had a problem with your car? Pretty annoying, wasn’t it? Maybe you were tempted to send off a nasty letter to the car manufacturer or possibly you quietly fumed about it at home. Whatever you did, I’m […]