Archive for the ‘Automotive’ Category

Road Myths: Physics of a head-on collision

Filed under: By the Numbers, Safety Shaun de Jager, Founder of RoadAwareness.org speaks out about road safety and road related issues. The myth is that if two cars travelling at the same speed, say 50km/hr and collide head-on, the effect and damage is the same as one car colliding with a solid, immovable object at […]

Instructing at ILR Car Control School

Once again I joined the ILR Car Control School (www.carcontrolschool.com) as an instructor, teaching drivers some advanced skills not commonly found on our roads. The objective of the school is to take drivers from their basic level of knowledge and skill and kick them up several notches and that’s exactly what we did. Today we […]

Road Myths: Do red cars attract more tickets?

Filed under: Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Safety, Design/Style, Ownership and Repair Shaun de Jager, Founder of RoadAwareness.org speaks out about road safety and related issues. Do drivers in red cars get more traffic tickets? This may well be a common belief among many drivers and a belief that people have uttered for years. But do they really? […]

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