Another thing I always turn off is the fuel saving ‘stop / start’ feature.. mostly because it isn’t very smooth at doing so.
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I do turn this off ,yes it’s annoying
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It forces you to do the right thing and use your indicator. When you do use your indicator, it overrides lane assist.
I find there are many times you cross a “line” and it’s not a situation you need to use your indicator ie. Not a lane change. It’s also too sensitive and rumbles the steering wheel when you get close to the line, yet often this is unavoidable with narrow lanes or parked cars. It’s annoying.
Yep. Every single time I turn that off. I have to do it at the start of every single trip . But it’s become a reflex habit now.
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This made me laugh…
Victorian driver pulled over for having no bonnet and a plastic chair for a drivers seat in his car!
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Victorian Roads Minister Melissa Horne has confirmed her department has launched a review into regulations around driving licences for elderly people.
Gold Coast City Council pulls plug on electric charging stations as officers prepare for Plan B
Ten public charging stations across the Gold Coast have been suddenly switched off, leaving electric vehicle owners scrambling to find alternatives.
“We need to make a plan. It is anticipated that between now and 2030 we will move to about 25 per cent of our fleet electric vehicles.
A City spokesperson said the plan would include proposing a new framework for future deployment of EV charging stations.
“In the meantime, we remind the community that there are more than 67 alternative charging locations around the city, with this number growing,” the spokesperson said.
Mentioned on Have You Been Paying Attention? this week. Queensland mum Indica Bradford said her application to use her name as a personal number plate for her car was rejected, as Indica is also a strain of cannabis.
BYD vs Tesla: Australian testing exposes EV range claims
Electric vehicles from China to Germany are failing to match their laboratory promises, with some falling hundreds of kilometres short in Australian road tests.
Independent testing by the Australian Automotive Association (AAA), the nation’s peak motoring body, found the BYD ATTO3 only managed to travel 369km on a single battery charge – more than 100km less than the advertised 480km range.
All the cars reported fell short of advertised ranges when tested.
A QUT visual communication design student’s playful take on a well-known nursery rhyme to reinforce the life-saving necessity of seatbelts has been selected as part of a national road safety program.
Brisbane-based Tiffany Fouche, who has just graduated with her Bachelor of Business, Design and Visual Communication (Marketing), created the ‘Humpty Should Have Worn a Seatbelt’ concept being seen on roadside billboards and other digital screens in bus shelters, shopping centres and elsewhere throughout Queensland.
Her clever, eye-catching response to the challenge of educating drivers and passengers on the importance of wearing seatbelts every trip, and how to wear them correctly, saw her named the Queensland university winner of the annual Australia-wide Re:act Road Safety Behaviour Change Program.
Her artwork will be on display on hundreds of Re:act media partner oOh!media digital assets until the end of August.
Saw this sign on SBS’s Road Trip - on the road to Jabiru
Didn’t realise a “drive on the left” sign was a thing but a Google search shows others scattered around. Since this is +200k from Darwin I thought that the tourist might have already realised this already, but perhaps reminders are needed on long straight roads with little traffic?
Love 130 kph sign as well!
Similar sign in the are on Google Maps.
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Remember seeing some along the Great Ocean Road about 10 years ago.
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They tend to get installed around tourist hotspots to remind foreign tourists that we drive on the left (these are locations where there are often accidents where people instinctively end up driving on the wrong side of the road) - there was one on the road out of Uluru Airport, from memory, too. They might be on the exits of international airport roads too.
There are quite a few in and around the Granite Belt in Queensland, where there are lots of backpackers picking fruit.
Speaking of which, i love seeing huge distances on the mile markers (to remind tourists how big Australia is) - like this one at the start of the Warrego Hwy near Ipswich
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This made the news tonight - I know the church is very moving for some, now it moves itself
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I’ve seen them on Queensland roads.