Twitter users are on a global quest to fight injustice; when they are not busy challenging questionable legal injunctions, an increasing number of media-savvy cyclists and police forces around the world are using social media to track down thieves.
The Cycle to Work scheme has survived the taxman’s decision last year that allowing employees to buy cheap bikes for commuting was too generous.
A group of walkers has developed a new type of bicycle that effectively side-steps all local regulations outlawing the use of bikes on pavements.
When engineers developed the gyroscopes, tilt sensors and high-speed microprocessors to allow the Segway to stay upright they had not considered the balancing act involved in getting the scooter approved from the Department for Transport, but luckily such “legal hurdles”:/2011/01/27/segway-conviction-ends-legal-limbo have not stopped other designers from using the same technology to build ever-more-ambitious variations on the theme.
A new and improved version of the Riversimple hydrogen fuel cell urban car will mark a radical evolution from the ground-breaking technology demonstrator the company unveiled in 2009. The new vehicle will share none of the components used in its predecessor, but will once again forsake a conventional engine in favour of a fuel cell stack, a device that uses an electrochemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity to power a motor.