Seeing a lot of mobile speed cameras on your summer road trips? Here's how they work
As you're driving around this summer holidays, there's every chance you'll see a strange-looking white or yellow box on the side of the road.
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As you're driving around this summer holidays, there's every chance you'll see a strange-looking white or yellow box on the side of the road.
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It may not be too long before autonomous vehicles rule the roads. Despite a few widely reported mishaps, autonomous vehicles (AVs) are considered as safe or safer than human drivers in many respects.
A combined team of researchers from MIT and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has found that drivers with adaptive cruise control (ACC) tend to be more likely to exceed speed limits than they would were it ...
Slowing transport in cities provides immense benefits for the health of people, economies and the planet, so why are we still obsessed with speed?
May 21, 2021
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What if our cars didn't allow us to speed? Or, at least, strongly encouraged us not to speed?
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The world's biggest tech megashow, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), gets underway in Las Vegas this week, with organizers hoping to recapture the excitement of years past after two years marred by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Semi-trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for nearly half of road transportation carbon dioxide emissions in Europe, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation. A team of researchers in ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Issues such as abrupt changes in speed limits and incomplete lane markings are among the most influential factors that can predict road crashes, finds new research by University of Massachusetts Amherst engineers. The study ...
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A study of nearly 35,000 routes to work revealed that people were most likely to choose to cycle when traffic speeds along their route were under 20mph—providing evidence to debates about speed limits in urban areas.
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Being stuck in miles of halted traffic is not a relaxing way to start or finish a summer holiday. And as we crawl along the road, our views blocked by by slow-moving roofboxes and caravans, many of us will fantasise about ...
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A road speed limit is the maximum speed allowed by law for road vehicles. Speed limits are commonly set and enforced by the legislative bodies of nations or provincial governments, such as countries within the world.
The first maximum speed limit was the 10 miles per hour (16 km/h) limit introduced in the United Kingdom in 1861.
The Isle of Man is the only place in the world that does not have a general speed limit. In Germany, over 50% of the autobahn system remains free from speed limits.
Currently, the highest posted speed limit in the world is 140 kilometres per hour (87 mph) on Polish motorways , although a variable speed limit up to 160 kilometres per hour (99 mph) was permitted experimentally on a stretch of Austrian motorway in June 2006.
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