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Thursday, 03 October 2019

BBC News

• Electric cars: New Welsh homes 'must have' car chargersSome motorists say they are unable to switch due to a lack of chargers in rural areas.

The Guardian

• Collision course: pedestrian deaths are rising – and driverless cars aren’t likely to change thatFor drivers, roads are safer than ever – but for people on foot, they are getting deadlier. Car companies and Silicon Valley claim that they have the solution. But is that too good to be true? By Peter C BakerIn 2010, the small community of specialists who pay attention to US road safety statistics picked up the first signs of a troubling trend: more and more pedestrians were being killed on American roads. That year, 4,302 American pedestrians died, an increase of almost 5% from 2009. The tally has increased almost every year since, with particularly sharp spikes in 2015 and 2016. Last year, ...

Times Online

• Loyal customers charged £109 more to insure cars [subscription]British drivers are being overcharged by £2.4 billion for motor insurance after accepting high premiums, according to research.
• Driverless taxis on streets of London for the first time [subscription]Driverless cars have hit the streets of London before a full roll-out next year in which autonomous taxis will become common in the capital.

City AM

• Petrol prices fell even as drones struck Saudi oilWorries that drone strikes in Saudi Arabia would drive up prices at the pumps for customers seemed unfounded, new data [...] The post Petrol prices fell even as drones struck Saudi oil appeared first on CityAM.