Johannesburg – This festive season many South African drivers will make a mental calculation and then decide if they are sober enough to get behind the wheel and drive home. The bad news is that new research has found that at least half of them will have...
Most vehicle insurance policies contain exclusions, which entitle insurers to decline liability where an incident driver is under the influence of alcohol, or where a driver’s blood-alcohol level is over the legal limit, or where a driver fails a breathalyser test....
Power cuts are likely to be a regular feature this festive season as embattled Eskom struggles to keep the lights on. But power cuts bring with it the risk of power surges. And the voltage fluctuations often lead to household appliances being damaged beyond repair....
Data from vehicle tracking and recovery firm Netstar shows an uptick in remote jamming of vehicle immobilisers in the run-up to Black Friday and peak shopping periods. The device used to jam the remote signals is often a customised version of a 400MHz gate or garage...
Washington – Breath-sniffing sensors and finger-scanning detectors are central to a landmark US safety mandate to fight drunk driving that is spurring tough questions about what technology can be trusted to do. The federal law, which will require new cars to...
The Massachusetts highest court found that an insurer is obliged to compensate the claimants not only for repairs to their vehicles to restore them to pre-collision condition but also for what is known as inherent diminished value (IDV). IDV damages are included as...
