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Sunday, 26 March 2017

Financial Times

• Are the wheels about to fall off car finance?PCP schemes have revolutionised vehicle buying based on strong used car values
• Uber self-driving car crashes during US testsCollision threatens plans to bring high levels of autonomy into commercial use
• India’s Uber drivers feel taken for a rideMany people whom Uber helped take out car loans struggle with payments as subsidies are cut

Times Online

• First smart town to end grind of daily commute [subscription]This is your working day in the mid-2020s. Take a stroll through colonnaded streets to the office before joining your daughter to watch wild ponies graze at lunch. Then go kite surfing after work — all with no need to own a car.

Mail Online

• Parliament Square could be car-free after London attack MPs are pushing for the area outside the palace to be pedestrianised - reviving a long-standing project that has been championed by Sadiq Khan.

London Evening Standard

• Car hacking: public concern is high, but what's the risk?Our cars are becoming increasingly connected, and that is getting some people worried criminals might try to hack them

Other Regional Press

• The weird transport solutions to cut the amount of time it takes you to drive in and out of CambridgeWe look at some of the more imaginative ways of cutting down your journeys across the city
• MotionMap wants to make transport better, faster and easier in CambridgeIn a series of increased efforts to position Cambridge as a hub for innovation, an intelligent transport app allowing you to view real time transport data is being developed by local tech company Building Intellect Ltd in partnership with the Smart Cambridge Programme.

Green Miscellany

• Business fleets offered free courses on tailgatingTailgating is a contributory factor in a significant number of collisions so business fleet operators are now being offered free training for their drivers. The Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) is offering free courses on behalf the Road Safety Trust. Employers with young, male drivers who undertake regular driving in light goods vehicles or cars during work, with significant mileage on… The post Business fleets offered free courses on tailgating appeared first on ETA.
• Pay-as-you-go hydrogen car edges closer to productionBritain’s most radical automotive�company is edging ever closer to full-scale production of a hydrogen car with a 300-mile range. Pay-as-you-go hydrogen car Riversimple aims to transform the way we use our cars by replacing outright ownership of diesel and petrol cars with hydrogen-powered vehicles you lease like a mobile phone. Customers will typically take a car for 1 – 3… The post Pay-as-you-go hydrogen car edges closer to production appeared first on ETA.

Other News Sources

• GreenRoad Partners and Smith System to offer technology-backed driver behavior training GreenRoad, a global company that develops driver behavior technology solutions, has partnered with Smith System, a multinational firm that offers collision avoidance driver training, to deliver a solution for in-vehicle driver safety technology as we…
• Campaigners demand lower fuel pump prices to reflect wholesale decline FairFuelUK argue a 3pm wholesale decline in prices has not been passed onto motorists