Now you’ve got your full licence you’re free to roam this great country and there are thousands of kilometres of spectacular driving to be had. However, you’re still a novice at driving and there will be situations that you won’t…
NZTA is advising drivers to start planning their Labour Weekend travel so they can avoid the inevitable snarl-ups, particularly north of Auckland. Drivers wanting to avoid congestion on SH1 can take SH16 between Wellsford and either the Silverdale interchange on…
Ideally, we should spend our time 100% focused on the road while driving, but that never happens because our brains develop efficient little subroutines that take care of the mundaneness. We then occupy ourselves with deliberate distractions, like singing to…
If you are driving around when school buses are operating you may not be aware that there is a 20kph speed limit if you are passing a school bus dropping off or picking up children, regardless of which direction you…
In New Zealand the usual tolerance is 10kph over the limit, and in holiday periods this is dropped to 4kph. There is some contention over whether this is successful in achieving a reduction in fatalities and as the practice is…
Get behind the wheel of a car in New Zealand and you need a licence to take it on a public road. But what happens if the car is driverless; autonomous; self-driving? We don’t have a legal requirement for a…
