Driving guides

For quite a few years I commuted an hour-and-a-half from the NSW Central Coast to Sydney and, in that time, I saw people doing all kinds of reckless, stupid acts on the freeway while driving at 110km.

Is it illegal to drive barefoot? What about without closed shoes?

The rise of connectivity to our phones has seen them integrated to our cars as a major feature. However, this integration has come with a terrible cost thanks to horrendous crashes while using a phone

Drivers in Germany will remain free to push the limits on the country's famed autobahns after the German government outright rejected calls to introduce a national speed limit.

If driving flat-out on one of Germany's autobahns is on your bucket list, you might want to start booking your flights. The famous speed-limit-free roads could soon be a thing of the past under new climate protection rules currently under consideration.

Porsche has created a new road trip phone app that will warm the hearts of lead-foots everywhere, allowing owners to navigate to their destination via the area's finest driving roads.

Driving around with loose-fitting footwear on, like thongs (or flip-flops for our American friends), is not actually against any Australian road rules we can find.

Yes and no, as there are no specific laws around driving with a broken arm or wrist, but you could get pulled over if your driving is affected by your injury. Just because nobody has written a law to explicitly ban driving with a busted arm or wrist, that doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t be pulled over by the police and fined for not being in full control of your vehicle. Additionally, if your doctor gives you advice not to drive while you have a broken limb, then you cannot legally get behind the wheel. In some instances the police have required a doctor to sign paperwork to clear you for driving, which they will want to sight.The laws of common sense apply when working out if it's safe for you to operate a car with a broken arm or wrist. Can you reach all the controls? Can you operate the gear shifter, indicators, windscreen wipers, windows, and even the door handles? It's also important to consider that it isn’t just your safety you’re putting at risk by driving when you shouldn’t really be behind the wheel – how would you feel if a loved one was injured (or worse) in a crash with a driver who didn’t have proper control of their car thanks to a broken bone?When it comes to insurance coverage, most companies will only investigate if the broken bone was a leading cause of the crash (and claim), however we recommend you read the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) for your specific insurance policy (from your insurer) to ensure that there is not an exclusion for medical conditions. While we found this link to the NSW rules helpful, most other states and territories don’t have well laid-out information available. Victoria tells you to check with a doctor before driving, while this legal blog backs up the belief that your ability to drive has to be okayed by a doctor rather than a policeman or your local transport department.​This article is not intended as legal advice. You should check with your local road authority to verify the information written here is suitable to your situation before driving in this manner.

There can be times when it is beneficial to use both feet on one pedal, like the panic-braking trying to avoid a crash. In a similar vein, drivers of manual cars will use both feet when balancing the

The old saying is that Murphy (as in, he of Murphy's Law fame) comes knocking at the worst possible time for you.