Defensive driving means assuming that other road users will make mistakes and leaving yourself room to deal with them. It is less about reflexes than about habits that keep you out of tight situations in the first place. Keep space around you Following distance is the foundation. In good conditions, keep at least three seconds … Read more
Car safety used to be about surviving a crash: seat belts, airbags, crumple zones. Most recent progress is about avoiding the crash in the first place. Here is what the main systems do and what we know about how well they work. Automatic emergency braking Automatic emergency braking (AEB) uses cameras and radar to detect … Read more
Teen drivers crash more often than any other age group, mainly because of inexperience. The car cannot fix that, but it can make a big difference to how a mistake ends. That is why safety experts give parents the same advice year after year: choose something mid-size, safe and boring. What to look for The … Read more
A smartphone can replace a stack of maps, a logbook and a few phone calls. The apps below are well-established and widely used; most work with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto, which display them on the car’s screen. Navigation and traffic Google Maps is the default for many drivers, with reliable live traffic, lane guidance … Read more
Technically, the driver is a wood too: it is sometimes called the 1-wood. But in everyday golf talk, “wood” means the fairway woods, usually a 3-wood and a 5-wood. The two clubs look similar and do quite different jobs. The key differences Head size. Drivers have the largest heads in the bag, up to 460 … Read more
