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To understand how ‘Furiosa’ and other new films challenge car culture’s male-centric conventions, it’s useful to look closely at how car culture has favoured a certain kind of male hero.
Chinese car makers are finding the road to succeeding in the EU slow and bumpy.
It’s common to see solar panels on rooftops and fields, but they aren’t widespread on cars − yet.
The Garden State is the only one in the country that forbids self-service gas stations − and that’s not likely to change anytime soon.
Compared to its 1980 predecessor, the new FX series presents a more authentic portrayal of early modern Japan.
While electric cars have significantly lower emissions over their entire lifecycle, research shows that owners of older cars can experience mobility in a more restrained way.
Australian vehicle emissions are even worse than official figures show and are likely to fall even further behind the rest of the world unless much more ambitious policies are adopted.
This seemingly cutting-edge technology isn’t entirely new to our century.
The road to fuel-efficiency reform in Australia is a bumpy one – and the Albanese government has hazards to negotiate before its proposal becomes law.
Several years on from the pandemic, the demand for new cars still outstrips supply. But turning to the second hand market is not the solution.
When you’re running late in the winter, you don’t want to have to spend time scraping frost off your windshield. Try some expert-recommended techniques instead.
Paying for your parking via an app promises ease and efficiency. But we are entering a bargain with unclear terms around data privacy and public revenue.
The ‘everything store’ doesn’t offer every type of car, at least not yet. But a pilot program could still be a step toward online auto sales.
Self-driving cars still perceive what’s going on very differently to how humans do.
At Q’s of course! But he doesn’t pull them out of his sleeve. In Spectre (2015), Daniel Craig and Ben Whishaw play the famous spy and his gadget supplier.
As you travel around the country this holidays, you might see some roadside trailers or tripods. They’re mobile road safety cameras and they can catch out a range of bad driver behaviour.
Tesla’s recall of over two million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada is meant to address driver overreliance on the semi-autonomous Autopilot feature.
Your car’s safety technology takes you into account. But a lot of that technology helps car companies collect data about you. Researchers are working on closing the gap between safety and privacy.
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Honorary Professor of Transport Studies, UCL
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director, Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence (EVCE), Cardiff University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Product Design, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Business and Sustainability, Cardiff University
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Senior Research Fellow in Human Factors & Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
