Hello and welcome to Overdrive a program that broods over the world of cars and transport

I’m David Brown

In this program we have news stories with David Campbell

1. Safety prioritised with 5 stars for Toyota HiAce and Nissan Leaf EV, yet the opposite for Jeep Wrangler at 1 star (1:42)

2. Jaguar and Chargefox agreement sparks Australia’s EV interest (2:20)

3. Tesla reveals Model 3 Australian prices (3:12)

4. Pricing for Swedish mid-sized S60 sedan and V60 wagon well below Germans (4:53)

5. UTSA engineers develop inexpensive smart stop sign to improve rural road safety (6:03)

6. TU Graz developing ‘predictive’ pedestrian crossing signals for Vienna (7:15)

7. In Sydney they have a land mark called the Meccano set it’s an ancient structure to hold signs at traffic lights at a major intersection. They had to replace it and they chose to replicate the old, brutalist design from 1952. We find out why (8:41)

8. And Alan Zurvas has just witnessed a crash test. We find out what it was like and what is happening in the future (14:45)

9. Two motoring minutes

• Jeep’s problems with brash tests (13:49)

• VW Toureg (21:54)

10. And some quirky news with Brian Smith (22:46)

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Originally broadcast 25 May 2019