Last October, there was another toll price hike for 18 highways in Malaysia. I pass three tolls to get from the suburb, where I live, to Kuala Lumpur city centre – I now pay 42% more in toll fees for each return trip to the city. Sudden toll rate hikes, abrupt petrol price surges (when the subsidy was still in place), and now steep increase in parking rates…I’m not even surprised nor annoyed anymore.
While the Pokémon Go game has taken over the US of A like a fast-spreading zombie virus which has people walking around in a sort of stupor, staring at their phones, wandering into restricted/dangerous zones, banging into innocent pedestrians and getting banged by cars, we who are living in the rest of the world are still eagerly anticipating the game’s launch in our countries.
Honda has released a new advert that is raising quite a few eyebrows, especially amongst the law enforcement community. The carmaker’s commercial, targeting the Israeli market, seems to suggest that you can only truly appreciate the new Honda Civic R if you get your female partner to fake going into labour in the passenger seat if you are pulled over.
Perodua is finally launching its first A-segment sedan on 21 July, and bookings opened on Saturday in more than 181 showrooms nationwide. The Bezza, as it is called, was fully designed by the leading Malaysian carmaker, with the support of Japan’s Daihatsu, with whom Perodua has collaborated for decades. “Bezza” is a homophone of the Malay word “beza”, which means “different”; the double “z” represents the number “22”, which is the number of years that Perodua has been in the market.
Tens of millions of diesel-powered cars around the world are emitting more pollution – more than what the manufacturers claim – when it is cold, according to new research published in the UK this week. The research by testing company Emissions Analytics found that noxious gases in most popular diesel-fuelled vehicles are significantly higher once the mercury drops below the 18 centigrade mark.
After the driver of a Tesla Model S was involved in a fatal accident whilst the autopilot system was engaged, the driver of the truck involved in the crash told reporters that the deceased Tesla driver, Joshua Brown (pictured below), was watching a movie – specifically, Harry Potter – and was not paying attention to the road when the incident occurred.