Advanced Driving Hub

Both of my cars have cradles that I installed. I use Brodit as they will sell you a car-specific mount to which you add a phone-specific holder, making it easier to change car, or phone. I have active mounts for my iPhone that hold a charging cable so that the phone is recharged while it is in the c...

It isn’t going to be illegal for a passenger to update Waze, is it?

This weekend I have mostly been riding my motorbike, although I did give the MR2 a run out this morning in search of croissants. It’s been rather sidelined since I got the bike.

I think that even light commercial vehicles are moving to automatic transmission. At work I receive a magazine called Van User and it appears that pretty much all new versions of current vans are getting either auto as standard, or as an option, as well as a general move to electric power.

Brake’s approach is counterproductive because it will lead to some drivers acting to impede others overtaking in the mistaken view that they are helping to prevent a dangerous act. It is probably unrealistic to expect to teach everyone how to overtake, and the roads would get pretty chaotic if every...

I would argue that the most dangerous part of being offside is when you are alongside the vehicle you are overtaking. If you move right to check the view forward without speeding up you can move back in if the view shows the overtake is not on. Once you start to accelerate you are either committed t...

You should miss out on most of the grit as long as you don’t insist on crackling.

“Eyes on main beam” is just meaningless jargon really. When I spent a day with Chris Gilbert he repeatedly rammed home the value of looking further ahead by telling me about approaching vehicles that I should have seen myself: “there’s a white van, followed by a red car just about to come into view”.

I’m doing my CBT next month; would you care to explain, briefly, the difference between a shoulder check and a lifesaver?

I doubt that they are very receptive to percussive maintenance either.