Overdrive: Cars, Transport And Culture

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that looks at the factors affecting our attitude and actions to motoring and transport. I’m David Brown And in this program, we look at news stories with including: 1. MIT's new self-driving car navigates without road markings 2. Sweden builds life-size slot-car track for long-distance electric-car charging 3. Despite government efforts, keyless ignitions linked to carbon monoxide deaths 4. Elon Musk envisions $1 rides to use Boring Company tunnels 5. Shell Airflow Starship semi truck leaves San Diego on record fuel-economy run 6. China reduces import duties on cars We have a lovely chat with motoring commentator Will Hagon about the early history the imaginative, ingenious car company Alvis that started in 1919. And Brian Smith and Errol Smith and I take a merry, look at some unusual stories of the day including 7. Royal wedding cars 8. Drunk mower driver arrested after cutting someone else’s grass