Overdrive: Cars, Transport And Culture

Hello and welcome to Overdrive a program that broods over the world of cars and transport I’m David Brown In this program we have news stories with David Campbell 1. Safety prioritised with 5 stars for Toyota HiAce and Nissan Leaf EV, yet the opposite for Jeep Wrangler at 1 star (1:42) 2. Jaguar and Chargefox agreement sparks Australia’s EV interest (2:20) 3. Tesla reveals Model 3 Australian prices (3:12) 4. Pricing for Swedish mid-sized S60 sedan and V60 wagon well below Germans (4:53) 5. UTSA engineers develop inexpensive smart stop sign to improve rural road safety (6:03) 6. TU Graz developing ‘predictive’ pedestrian crossing signals for Vienna (7:15) 7. In Sydney they have a land mark called the Meccano set it’s an ancient structure to hold signs at traffic lights at a major intersection. They had to replace it and they chose to replicate the old, brutalist design from 1952. We find out why (8:41) 8. And Alan Zurvas has just witnessed a crash test. We find out what it was like and what is happening