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The Speed Camera Lottery

Applying a bit of game theory to the road, in aid of the Volkswagen Fun Theory behaviour experiments – this was the winning entry.

Use The Force, Volkswagen.

Volkswagen (well, the clever marketing agencies they hook up with) have a knack of crafting witty, intelligent advertising for television. Unfortunately their latest campaign for the US-spec Passat won’t be appearing to liven up the advert breaks over here, but it shows that even across the pond VW advertising still hits the spot. Cutest. Telekinesis [...]

Top Gear’s potential: learning from the Germans

Yesterday on the Twittershere, Evo magazine contributor and ace wheelman Richard Meaden posted the following.. This is what Top Gear should be like: GT2 RS v R8 GT v SLS, flat-out on the road ..with a link to the spiffing video you see above. I can’t speak a word of German, but after a few [...]

Snowpocalypse: a petrolhead solution

So the UK is in the snowy grasp of wheelspin, flat-batteries and excuses not to venture outside, while the white stuff has it’s way and brings the country to a standstill. Like much of the South East, the failure of the rail networks to cope has conspired to find me working from home today, which [...]