Knowing your K53 road and traffic sign rules is an important part of maintaining road safety for yourself, as well as for other drivers. The aim of road traffic signs is to regulate road traffic. This includes ensuring road traffic safety and seamless traffic flow. Road and traffic signs are placed at the sides of…

More often, children have been seen not buckled in their seats, standing during the road trip and sitting between a car’s front seats – all of which breaks the road legislation. However, children are careless and are too young to take responsibility for their legal actions. But the driver of vehicle can and should. Kids…

Speeding camera statistics have illustrated an increase in road traffic violations. Violations to the rules, laws and regulations of the road are magnifying, as many car drivers and drivers of other motor vehicles do not possess a good knowledge base of South Africa’s National Road Traffic Regulations. Or they have just forgotten what they learned…

South Africa’s Department of Transportation are taking major lengths to eliminate treacherous driving. If you need to drive on a daily basis to get where you need to be, why speed and risk your driver’s license getting suspended or revoked? South Africa has created a new traffic law based on a ‘demerit system’. The new…

Demands for eco-friendly, clean energy vehicles are increasing due to the South African economy’s extreme pollutive state causing droughts. South Africa’s fuel industry has therefore placed environmentalist movements’ ‘green economy’ demands, for a sustainable environment, on its list of top priorities. According to officials from Isondo Precious Metals, South Africa will birth Africa’s first fuel…

Careless and dangerous driving is increasing rapidly in South Africa… The Minister of Transport is lifting up her handbrakes, stepping on her clutch and putting her gear into park. Unhappy with South African statistics on road deaths, accidents, drunk driving, speeding, traffic offenses and driving without a license, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has announced her…

It seems like Ford Kuga and Ford EcoSport, are not the only cars making its way back to the assembly hole. Recalling around 1-million cars and SUV’s, particular Mercedes Benz cars have encountered a bit of a problem. Certain Mercedes Benz model variants are experiencing an overheat to a starter part, resulting in the vehicle…

It all started with ‘a weird noise in the engine’. In 2014, the Fire Protection Association of South Africa have reported more than 2,000 vehicles igniting, with an average of 6 per day. Ford Kuga has placed itself on South Africa’s fire brigade watch list this year, with consistent reports of the SUV’s 1.6-litre variant…

Having a car doing the driving, sounds like an utopian world for most motor vehicle drivers. But when really digging deep into the idea of autonomous cars, the first thing that comes to mind is, “what if there’s a system failure?” So, what are manufacturers doing to give automotive consumers a ‘piece of mind?’ In…

Britain’s diesel industry is rolling downhill with talks of a diesel scrappage scheme. If diesel is scrapped, car owners would be forced to trade-in their car for one emitting no CO2 into the atmosphere. But this seems to be the goal for British Government’s introduction to the diesel scrappage scheme – to fight pollutive emissions…