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Toyota patents transparent A-pillar to improve visibility in cars
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Japanese car-maker, Toyota has shown its serious about reducing forward blind-spots in cars – filing a patent for a clever, cheap solution to help drivers ‘see’ through a car’s A-pillars. Could this spell the end of ‘Sorry Mate I Didn’t See You’ accidents? Toyota has filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark…
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Valentino Rossi: “I fancy doing the Le Mans car race with Alonso as me teammate!”
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Valentino Rossi has told a radio station that he fancies having a go at the Le Mans 24 hour car race – and that he wouldn’t mind doing the four-wheeled thing in a team with Fernando Alonso. Speaking to the Radio Deejay station, Rossi was reviewing his season in MotoGP and began talking about the…
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To Mr Google Street View, Cheers ya swine!
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So you’re having a grand old time riding down your favourite mountain road in Japan when you get a bit squirrely on a left/right/left. Normally, it wouldn’t be an issue. But this morning you weren’t banking on a Google Street View car coming up the mountain road… Still, at least it had it’s camera on…
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Video: Remember this? Biker’s phone revenge on cut-up driver with attitude
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It’s ages since we first brought you this video – but we’ve just watched it again and reckon that it’s time for the joy that is this bit of footage to be seen again. Originally we published this in November 2016 – yeah – but it’s worth looking at again. It’ll make you laugh.…
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Video: A row between a biker and a car. Then a kick, a car comeback and it gets real crazy, real quick
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A caught-on-camera road rage incident between a motorcyclist and a driver on a freeway in Santa Clarita led to a chain reaction crash, sending an innocent person to the hospital Wednesday, authorities said. The crash occurred before 6am, today, on the southbound 14 Freeway near Newhall in the USA. The passenger who shot the video…
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Nicky Hayden taken to hospital following cycling crash
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Nicky Hayden has been hit by a car while training on his bicycle along the Rimini Coast in Italy. Hayden was in Italy following last weekend’s Superbike World Championship round at nearby Imola and was riding around the city of Rimini, on the Adriatic coast, when he was involved in a collision with a car.…
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Huge rise in fines and points for speeding from today
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From today if you’re caught speeding at over 50mph in a 30 or over 100mph on a motorway then the penalty fine will increase to 150% of your weekly income and you will either be banned for seven to 56 days or receive six points on your licence. According to the BBC, The Sentencing…
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Video: Ride along with Guy Martin in a secret Time Attack lap of Cadwell Park (it’s four wheels… mostly…)
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https://www.facebook.com/cadwellpark/videos/1649985511681794/ Check out this video of Guy Martin putting a Time Attack Evo through its paces at Cadwell Park. the lad looks a bit tasty. This happened a couple of weeks ago at the Lincolnshire circuit and the rumour is that this attempt was being filmed for an upcoming episode of the Speed series.
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Honda’s MotoGP engine in two-person track/road car revealed for production in patents
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A couple of years ago we were the first to show you Project 2&4, a Honda concept that was – essentially a track car powered by the firm’s MotoGP RCV motor. Honda said that the car would put out over 250bhp but still have the instant ‘snap’ power delivery of the brutal bike engine. The…