Overdrive: Cars, Transport And Culture

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that looks at the fantasises and fallacies of anything to do with motoring and transport. News 1. Federal Government’s push for Future Technologies (1:49) 2. Crashtag - Innovative new app to boost motorsport safety (2:53) 3. Mini Australia introduces all-inclusive EV ownership experience with new dynamic mobility package for new electric hatch (2:56) 4. New Range Rover velar featuring pioneering new technology and mild hybrid electrification (4:52) 5. Covid-19: UK town of Slough to launch ‘safety-first’ e-scooter trial (5:53) Interview Our latest trip to a historic place in road test cars was to Picton with three very different models. Fred Brain gives us a run down (7:00) Feedback • Our favourite 82-year-old historian gives us her feelings about what she doesn’t like with modern cars (13:47) Interview COVID has given us the motive to consider major changes to transport – but while we have to move quickly, are we giving enough attention to how we should go. We h