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Are radar detectors and jammers illegal in Australia?
By David Morley · 20 Dec 2024
Is having a radar detector or jammer in your car against the law in Australia? In fact, are radar detectors illegal in Australia, even if they’re not in your car?
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Australian police cars: Everything you need to know
By Stephen Ottley · 10 Dec 2024
You never love to see them in your rear-view mirror, but you do like knowing they’re out on the roads keeping us safe. I’m talking, of course, about police cars.
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How many demerit points do I have?
By Stephen Ottley · 10 Dec 2024
Nobody likes seeing the red and blue flashing lights in the rear view mirror. A run-in with the law usually means you’ve done something wrong and are facing a penalty as a punishment, which typically consists of a monetary fine and some demerit points.
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Speed limits slashed as 40km/h becomes the new norm in City of Sydney, may go even lower to improve urban safety
By John Law · 09 Jul 2024
The City of Sydney council has been slowly reducing speed limits of high foot-traffic roads to 40km/h to enhance local safety.The 10km/h lower limit will now become the standard on regional and local roads within inner-city suburbs of Glebe, Forest Lodge, Beaconsfield and Waterloo.Illuminated electronic signs will be put in place in affected areas for a minimum of two weeks after the new limits become law.Suburbs further out with existing 50km/h limits including Annandale, Alexandria, Redfern Woolloomooloo and Zetland will also have some speed limits lowered to 40km/h.The City of Sydney's eventual goal is to implement more 30km/h zones in high pedestrian and cyclist areas.“It is everyone’s responsibility to make our roads as safe as they possibly can be for people walking, riding and driving,” said Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore.“Currently, 75 per cent of local and regional roads in our area already have a 40km/h speed limit or lower. That’s up from just five per cent in 2004. This has been achieved through our work with the NSW Government, which is funding the latest round of speed limit changes," she added.Myriad studies have shown a 10km/h reduction can benefit both pedestrian and vehicle safety in built-up areas.This latest reduction will only apply to local and regional roads. Motorways and State roads are spared.It is not all speed reduction in New South Wales, with the M4 motorway's WestConnex tunnel having its limit raised from 80km/h to 90km/h in March. Perhaps surprisingly, that speed limit increase was also for safety reasons.The number of deaths on NSW roads continues to climb despite newer, safer cars and generally lower speed limits. So far, 181 lives has been lost on roads in NSW compared to 165 in the same period last year. 
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Is 'Track Mode' illegal?
By Stephen Ottley · 26 Feb 2024
As modern performance cars have become faster and more complex, car companies have developed race track-specific driving modes as part of the search for the ultimate in speed and handling. 
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Is it legal to drive through a red light to make way for a police vehicle?
By David Morley · 28 Jul 2023
Q: Is it legal to drive through a red light to make way for the police vehicle? A: Here’s one of those questions that is very difficult to answer simply. Not only do different states and territories have their own laws on this, there’s conflicting advice from legal and motoring club outlets, as well as some truly grey areas in the law itself.
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How to check if you've been caught by a speed camera
By David Morley · 11 Jul 2023
We’ve all done it; you drive past a white or silver SUV parked by the side of the road and think, was that a speed camera? By the time you’ve looked down to check your speed, you’re past the parked vehicle and you discover, to your horror, that you were a handful of kilometres over the posted limit.
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Criminal intent! Kia Tasman to target police duties as new diesel ute looks to steal the Ford Ranger, Toyota HiLux and Isuzu D-Max's cop car thunder
By Andrew Chesterton · 15 Jun 2023
The incoming Kia Tasman ute appears to have set its sights on official police duties, with sources shown a ute dressed in police livery and modified to become a 'divvy van' - or division van, used to transport crooks and suspected criminals.The image woul
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Plug-in patrol: Queensland Police using MG HS PHEV in move to electrify fleet with hybrid cars
By Chris Thompson · 16 May 2023
Police in Queensland will be driving more and more kilometres under electric power, as the state’s police service introduces additional hybrid cars into its fleet.
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You're niXed! NSW Highway Patrol adds 2023 BMW iX xDrive40 electric car to its fleet
By Chris Thompson · 10 May 2023
There’s a new sheriff in New South Wales… sort of. The NSW Police Force’s Highway Patrol division has a new toy, in the form of a BMW iX electric car.
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