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For your entertainment, a small non-exhaustive list of absurd driving laws:
- In Utah, US, all kinds of birds have the right of way on any highways.
- In China, drivers who stop at pedestrian crossings may receive a fine or a warning under Article 40 of the Beijing Traffic Laws.
- You can’t ride a camel in [...]
According to a new study from Quality Planning – a firm specialised in information provision for the insurance industry – drivers of Hummers receive almost five times as many more traffic tickets than the average driver. Researchers explain this difference with the mistaken feeling of invincibility induced by the Hummer’s elevated driving position. “The sense [...]
Lost for ideas on what to do with your children this weekend? The search is over: go to Diggerland, UK. This theme park offers children the possibility to ride in, and drive, different types of construction machinery. They recently opened a new programme called “Novice driver” that allows now children from nine years of age [...]
Aptera motors have designed a new electric car that goes 160 km on a single charge and should be ready to be sold by the end of the year. Nevertheless, they won’t get money from the US government – funds that promote electric vehicles and other high-efficiency cars in the Innovative Vehicle Act. Why not? [...]
European governments are blindly supporting the car industry and this extreme support appears in ever more absurd manifestations. In Germany, with the pretext of promoting “green cars”, the government is currently offering €2,500 to people buying a new car. It doesn’t matter if you scrap a small fuel-efficient car to replace it with a Hummer. [...]
Robert Jones, a driver from Doncaster, UK, followed the instructions of his sat-nav a little too carefully – only noticing the limits of the machine as he hit a fence on the edge of a cliff. His sat-nav mistook a footpath for a road and he followed it. His sat-nav showed a road continuing over the [...]
In Romania, a driver jumped out from his car and bit a pedestrian. Yes, bit! You may think he was a descendant of some famous lineage of vampires, but no, we wouldn’t make fun of such stereotypes – he bit his victim on the stomach. Besides, it was not to taste the blood of his victim, but only because the pedestrian did not cross the road fast enough.
The Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, organised an art-environment awareness campaign, with unexpected results. The exhibition, called “Trouble in Paradise”, aims to show the consequences of our consumption and production patterns to the natural environment.
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