After a decade of swiping and tapping, carmakers from Volkswagen to Porsche are rediscovering what my 1991 944 S2 never forgot — the joy of a proper button. For years, carmakers have been obsessed with turning dashboards into glowing glass slabs, a sort of Silicon Valley fever dream where every function, from heating to headlights, lives behind a touchscreen. It looked futuristic, yes. It photographed beautifully in…
From Tesla’s Model S in 2012 to today’s easing of planning rules, electric car adoption remains stubbornly slow. Infrastructure tweaks won’t change that overnight. There is no doubt that the government’s recent move to ease planning permission for pavement-charging and curbside EV bays, as reported in the article in The Times today, signals a desire to accelerate the uptake of electric vehicles (EVs). But we should pause…
England’s driving test system has become a digital endurance event - complete with 6 a.m. queues, thousands of hopefuls, and bots that beat you to the punch. Trying to book a driving test in England has become, quite frankly, an exercise in futility. I say this from experience: I’ve spent weeks trying to secure a test date for my daughter, and what should be a simple administrative…