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Sky high premiums The Transport Secretary will today urge young drivers and women motorists to have ‘black boxes’ fitted in their cars to reduce sky-high insurance premiums by as much as half. Justine Greening will say that insurance costs increasingly bear ‘little relationship to the real world’, revealing figures showing that young male drivers now […]
Apps, saving drivers money Millions of drivers could potentially save money by using smartphone apps that monitor how safely they drive, according to insurance industry bosses. Getting a car insured can often cost thousands of pounds.Now several companies have released apps which use GPS technology to track things like speed, braking and cornering. The safer […]
Tax disc insurance certificate check dropped DVLA is proposing to remove the insurance check when a vehicle is taxed. Under plans unveiled this week by Roads Minister, Stephen Hammond, motorists will no longer have to provide a motor insurance certificate when buying a tax disc, with the change allowing around 600,000 additional motorists a year to […]
European car sales fall New car sales in the European Union have fallen for the 12th month in a row in September, according to the region’s biggest car-makers. European car sales across the 27 European Union countries fell 10.8% from last year. But of the major markets, the UK was the only one to grow, […]
Are car rental companies taking you for a ride? For Hertz car rental buying Dollar Thrifty may be a great financial move, but what of the business of car hire companies improving service? The news this week that Hertz has finally got its hands on Dollar Thrifty (which used to be plain Thrifty), so that […]
ANRP used in seizure of uninsured car The one millionth uninsured car on Britain’s roads has been seized by West Midlands police, Bluefin has reported. The West Midlands force has been utilising automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to help it crack down on the uninsured, and has reported an average seizure rate of one […]
Google drives ahead Advances such as the driver-less car are no longer the stuff of sci-fi. Companies such as Google are driving technology beyond the web and almost without noticing it, our world crossed a significant threshold last week. Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed into law a bill that will allow driver-less cars […]
Car insurance: An EU ruling means insurance companies must end gender discrimination, and female drivers under 40 will be hit hardest Testosterone-fuelled young males are, all the statistics suggest, a danger on the road. Thrill-seeking young men are prone to drive too fast, late at night, and cause horrific fatalities. Young males are 10 times […]
Electric cars might pollute much more than petrol or diesel-powered cars, according to new research. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology study found greenhouse gas emissions rose dramatically if coal was used to produce the electricity. Electric car factories also emitted more toxic waste than conventional car factories, their report in the Journal of […]
Young drivers who insure themselves through schemes incorporating in-car telematics are a third less likely to have an accident in their first year of driving than the national average. Young Marmalade, which specialises in keeping young drivers safe, is predicting less than 6% of new drivers insured under their Intelligent Marmalade scheme (which is still […]
