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Holidaying in Europe is less financially and environmentally costly than a long-haul holiday. Discovering the pleasures of local produce, simple regional cuisine and a slower pace of life is also an excuse to stay in an increasing range of alternative overnight stops – from converted lorries to tree houses.

A new gizmo developed by Land Rover that allows drivers of its vehicles' to see through the bonnet to the ground directly beneath and in front of the bumper could help make roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists. A driver's view - the head-up display shows the ground and...

Check That Bike! is a recently launched online database allows cyclists to check the provenance of any bike they are looking to buy second hand, but despite over one in ten searches of the website returning a bicycle suspected as stolen, police forces and cycle insurance companies appear reluctant to contribute their data to the scheme. The...

A new bicycle light claims to use the way our brain react to instantly recognisable symbols to help make urban cycling safer. The Brainy Bike Light uses an illuminated bike symbol as the front and rear bike lights. The design was developed with the help of a specialist in behavioural economics. Professor Charles Spence at the University of...

If you feel thrown around during your next bus ride, don't be too quick to blame an over exuberant driver - the forces exerted by a 15-ton bus constantly stopping and starting in traffic is very similar to those experienced by a Formula 1 car and engineers are taking advantage of this fact to pioneer fuel-saving technology. Williams Hybrid...

If you baulk at the idea of sporting a conventional Lycra skinsuit while cycling, you're unlikely to be in the market for a design that is even more revealing, but it may be that these new swimwear-themed versions will keep you safer on the road. [quote type="cycle_insurance"] Women cyclists given wider berth on the road Research carried...

Everything about the Hövding airbag for cyclists is extraordinary: It cost £10m to develop; its sensors record the wearer’s movements 200 times a second and, with a price tag of £260, it costs more than many bicycles. [quote type="cycle_insurance"] The ground-breaking approach to head protection for cyclists has resulted in Hövding already...

Next time you check your hair or make up in your car's vanity mirror, it might talk back; Volvo, the pioneer of the three-point seat belt, has developed a car that reacts when a driver looks tired or inattentive behind the wheel. By placing a sensor on the dashboard to monitor where the driver is looking, their head position and angle and...

Attempts to improve on the efficiency of the bicycle are doomed to fail, but the Halfbike’s combination of cycling and ‘bike jogging’ appears to offer a fun alternative way to move around the city; like a cross between a unicycle and a child’s scooter, the design promises to bring 'joy to urban mobility'. [quote type="cycle_insurance"]...

Slowly but surely, cycling is growing in the British consciousness as something desirable, fashionable and approachable – a fact reflected by the welcome return of a festival of cycling culture in the capital next weekend. Join the ETA at Spin LDN cycling festival next...