What Car launches driving school

In an ambitious move, What Car magazine has launced it's own driving school. With record numbers of instructors on the road, this is clearly an ambitious move in what is a fairly saturated market. What car driving school aim to be distinctive, but as yet, nothing about their plans seems to mark them out from the other major players.

Electric cars

Electric cars are making a big splash. With improving technology, and politicians like the London mayor wanting to push their green credentials, electric cars are looking more and more attractive. Tesla , Mitsubishi , Mega City, G-Wiz , GEM and Citroen all currently have electric cars on sale in the UK.
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Car Scrappage Scheme

300,000 new car buyers could benefit from the UK's new car scrappage scheme. The Government will pay people £1,000 if they scrap their 10 year old or older car, and the manufacturers will pay an additional £1,000.

Scrappage

Car scrappage scheme

The Uk motor industry is waiting with baited breath as to the outcome of proposals for a car scrappage scheme. The proposed plan would mean that people scrapping a car over 9 years old would get £2000 towards a new or nearly new car. A similar scheme offering drivers £1000 was mooted several years ago but mothing came of it,
The real scrap (!) at the moment is between Peter Mandelson who is in favour of the scheme and Alastair darling at the Treasury who say that the money is not available.
We await the outcome of this tussle in the budget.
The outcome will probably be a watered down scheme that suits no one!

Road traffic keeps on growing

DoT statistics show that road travel has increased by almost 25% over the last 15 years. Lincolnshire is one area with very high increases in traffic, showing a 65% increase in 15 years.

Women are better drivers?

If better = safer, then yes they are.

Recent surveys show that women have fewer accidents, however they do also drive less miles!

Three times more men are killed in road collisions than women, according to statistics from the World Health Organisation.'

Women are more likely to have low speed crashes, especially at junctions but these rarely lead to death or injury whereas male crashes are more often linked to risk-taking and breaking laws.

Insurance claims by women are less frequent and for lower amounts - which is why young men pay more for their insurance than young women.

UK Speed limit change

Plans to change the national speed limit on single carriageway roads have met a mixed reaction. The Government have announced plans to make the national speed limit 50mph on out of town single carriageway roads.

Research by the AA shows that 50% of drivers don't understand the national speed limit anyway and so to further complicate things will not help.

The Department for Transport claim that 250 lives a year could be saved by these measures. However critics argue that the average speed on free flowing roads is less than 50mph anyway and that the majorityof fatal accidents on rural roads are caused by other factors, such as overtaking at an inappropriate place.

In fact this change could be counter-productive.