Transport – Postcards

Driving ‘Assists’

September 5, 2024 No Comments

I drove a car with lane assist once, turned it off sharpish. Either I’m driving, or I’m a passenger. Any other half-way situation is pure shite. There’s no middle ground for driving automation, no happy medium. It’s a binary proposition. It can sound and look like there’s a ‘easier driving’ way, as if you can […]

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Fuck yeah! Transport

All Electric – New Hypercars

August 26, 2020 No Comments

But the extremes to which these cars had gone were almost exhausted in the combustion engine or even hybrid technology. Only electric power offered the possibility of a new generational leap: to an almost mythical 2,000bhp. “There are no other technologies that would provide you with the kind of power that you get out of […]

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Dublin Society Transport

Phoenix Park: Back to Car City

July 10, 2020 No Comments

That good news didn’t last – ‘It will be back to car city’ reports the Journal. Minister of State for the OPW, Patrick O’Donovan, said the decision over the gates was made after discussing issues like a growth of traffic in the surrounding areas over the past few weeks. “The volume of traffic built up […]

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Society Transport

Silent Skies

April 2, 2020 No Comments

I can usually see a stream of little silver slivers on the horizon, landing and taking off from Dublin Airport. Now, the skies are empty and silent. Global air traffic has collapsed: The tiny yellow aircraft symbols speak volumes. Anyone familiar with the flight-tracking website Flightradar24 knows the scores of miniature aircraft on the interactive […]

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Environment Health Transport

The ‘poisonous cabin’

April 24, 2017 No Comments

Unsurprisingly enough, and as previously indicated from small scale tests, sitting in a car or other vehicle is the most air-polluted place to be according to new research reported in the Times (“Motorists in ‘poisonous cabin’ alert”). “If you are stopped in congested traffic with your windows closed, as at traffic lights, then these toxins […]

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Environment Think of the Children! Transport

Ban cars near schools?

March 12, 2017March 12, 2017 No Comments

A bit radical but why not? How much air pollution should it be ok for children (and adults) to breath in every day just for a little apparent convenience? Perhaps this is something Dublin should look at too. “You can’t play politics with people’s lives and people’s health,” said Mr Khan. “Every day action is […]

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Big Business Environment Transport

1,200 people in Europe will die prematurely due to Volkswagen

March 3, 2017 No Comments

The stark reality of the ‘cheating’ on emissions by Volkswagen: “The researchers estimate that 1,200 people in Europe will die early, each losing as much as a decade of their life, as a result of excess emissions generated,” said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which took part in the study. [..] The European Environment Agency […]

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Bits & Bobs Cycling Transport

Christmas Bike!

December 22, 2016 No Comments

I like to dress the bike festively during Christmas. Lights *and* tinsel this year.

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Environment Transport

Electric Cars are still Cars

October 8, 2016 No Comments

Copenhagenize is pondering where the clean energy to power all the electric cars of the future will come from. More to the point, I think, is the huge amount of resources in materials and energy that are needed to build these cars. Especially the batteries. Then there are the renewables themselves. As electric car enthusiasts […]

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Transport

Loosening the belt won’t cure the problem

October 7, 2016 No Comments

Somebody gets it: More roads equal more traffic And why do more roads equal more traffic? It’s what economists called “induced demand” – this is where if you increase supply, the desire to use this supply increases too. Essentially, people like moving around. They have to do so for work and they are keen to […]

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Who?

Murf

Driving ‘Assists’

All Electric – New Hypercars

Phoenix Park: Back to Car City

Silent Skies

The ‘poisonous cabin’

Ban cars near schools?

1,200 people in Europe will die prematurely due to Volkswagen

Christmas Bike!

Electric Cars are still Cars

Loosening the belt won’t cure the problem

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