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Some have romantic memories of old Holdens: Terry Thompson is ever the realist but loves them all the same. Terry Thompson is a director of the ARDC, and has a long history in many things to do with cars and motoring, including the New South Wales Road Safety Advisory Council and a whole pile of motoring clubs, including the 48 and FJ. Holden Owners Club. We chatted to him about the history. You can listen to the interview here Terry has been the owner of a number of old Holdens including a couple of sedans and a panel van. When he used to take them down the street, he said a common response was "Hey mate I had one of these It was the best bloody car I've ever had" to which he would screw up my nose and think “Oh, my God. What have you been driving since you got there?”. I asked him as delicately as possible what he use to use the panel van for, was it similar to the types of things we did in later, larger, versions of this sort of car. I was thinking of going camping or the like. He noted that there use to be a sticker on the back of panel vans and utes that said “Yes. This is my ute and no, I'm not helping you move”. While the first Holden came off the production line nearly seventy-two years ago there are still a considerable number of car clubs dedicated to the early models. Terry noted that some are for the keeping the purity of the original cars including things like vacuum run windscreen wipers while others were not adverse to some modern electrics and other features on the old cars. The encouraging point he made that these car clubs are not just a bunch of old men. He said: “A whole new tribe of younger people coming in to take over the cars and look after them”. One of the great features of the early Holdens was “three on the tree”. These were the manual models with a column change and three forward gears. Terry took one of his to the Bathurst races one year and let radio and television personality Clive Robinson drive it around the track. Actually Clive only drove it the very last section down Conrod Straight because he didn’t know how to drive a manual. Mike Raymond, the track commentator at the time said that he thought Terry was a very brave man.

Dean Oliver and he and his family’s early holdens Overdrive's artist in residence, Dean Oliver also comes from a family that has had its passion for Holden cars. We chatted about those early years and Dean as a young man with a passion for cars but not the financial responsibility that some would have liked, DB Dean, your family did have some Holden's how far back to the go. DO Yeah. Thanks, David. Yes. Our family had a fairly small collection of Holden's, but nonetheless a good one. My parents originally came through from a 1950s Austin A40 tourer, but my father used to deliver newspapers in. And then the big move was a 1962 EK Holden's special. It was a station wagon and it had the two speed, hydromatic gearbox, which was brand new, and Dad used it to deliver newspapers around Shellharbour and that area of the south coast. DB Now, that's the reflection of the times, because when the first Holden came in, the biggest selling car was the A40 Austin Devon. DO Well, yes, he certainly fitted that theory really well. But the old English |Austin was just no match for the rough potholes of the roads of country, New South Wales. DB How did your father feel with that change? Because it was going to a bigger car, a more powerful car, and a more rugged car. Was he proud of that? DO It was the pride of the family, David. There were photographs of the family standing beside it, beaming, smiling, and it was a spectacular looking thing compared to the old Austin. The Holden was bright blue and a strip down the side and the EK had those wonderful tailfins on the taillights which looked very American. DB It was that era of the excess of the Cadillac reflecting the space race, really, wasn't it? It was trying to look like it was a rocket. DO Yes. But NASA rockets probably didn't overheat with quite the same problem as the Holden did, especially on our trips up to Sydney. DO Mom always packed a thermos and some sandwiches because the Holden would get pretty warm going up Mount Ousley from Wollongong and dad always had a race with himself to see if he could get over in third gear with changing back down to second. About 50 percent of the time. DB That's another whole story of the hills in every capital city under which people tested their car or even in your cases, you're saying some of the more rural roads, if you can get up the hill, then you know you're doing well. Did they continue with Holdens? DO Yes. And after almost ten years, the old EK gave way to a 1972 HQ Kingswood and it was a 253 V8. And I think my poor old dad might have got done over by the salesman at the Holden dealership. It was pretty well out of character for him to go for a smooth V8, and especially the HQ was the clour was Chateau Mauve, which was a metallic purple colour. It started rusting from the day we bought it. DB You then continued your first car, I think was a Torana, but it came with an unsolicited recommendation for financial prudence. DO Well, I've got my first job and I was pretty keen on Holdens and the Holden Dealer Team and the Bathurst race and all that sort of thing. I had a job. I was getting a regular income and so it had to be a Torana. There's no way I could have got an XU1 because insurance was just totally impossible for a young bloke in his early 20s. So my new car was a GTA Torana. A 1973 LJ model and it was wonderful and I bought it with a bank loan and I got a stern lecture from the bank manager about responsible financial management. And in hindsight, I think I borrowed about $2000. The car was about $3,400 new and I borrowed $2000 which dollars at the day was an enormous amount of money. So the bank manager was, I think, pretty horrified.

There is an old adage about motor racing. “Race on Sunday; Sell on Monday”. This was one of those passionate mantras that seem to motivate Holden and Ford during the glory years of the long-distance production car racing at Bathurst in the late 60s and most of the 70s. Holden kept at it for years after that more than Ford. Fred Brain is a classic example of someone who had a close association with Holden arising out of their racing at Bathurst. Fred grew up on a farm near Wagga and they did not get a television till 1969. He watched his first Bathurst race that year, won by Colin Bond and Tony Roberts in a Holden Monaro GTS 350. Subsequently he bought a genuine GTS 350 Monaro which he still has. He baught a second Monaro that he now races in the historic category. You can hear Fred reminisce about the life and times of his cars at: Some of the things Fred mentions are as follows: He took his genuine GTS350 off the road and parked it in a shed at the farm in the late 80s to restore in the near future. The restoration is going strong (if very slowly!!). He entered his racing Monaro In the East Coast classic (an attempt to get a Targa Tasmania going in NSW). I was his navigator. When we went through Oberon we were approach by a Catholic priest who was a Holden fan so he blessed the car. Lucky he wasn’t a Ford fan or he would have done an exorcism. A young boy approaches the car at one stop and said how surprised he was to see the car as he ahad not seen one before. Fred noted that it was built before he was born. The young lad said “But I am 15 years old!”. The car at that stage was at least 30 years old. We also approached by a lady who was well into her middle age years, who was wearing a Monaro T-Shirt that she had had since she was a young girl. To her credit it still fitted although it was being stretched a little. She had loved Monaros from the beginning and still did to this day. A passion for the brand, especially when racing, does not however, guarantee continual sales. Fred’s first regular car was a Toyota Corona and then he rally and Raced a Datsun 1600. He has owned a series of cars including a Valiant Pacer and a Ford station wagon (used as a tow car). His emotional attachment to Holden Monaros will help keep the history alive but he has little feeling for the American owned company that has decided to leave our market.

Hello and welcome to Overdrive a program that ponders the purpose of cars and transport In the news 1. Jaguar Land Rover: new vehicle for a new approach (1:20) 2. Can the Haval H9 SUV make it here? (2:07) 3. The standout design feature in the Citroen C5 (3:08) 4. A hydrogen-electric ute (4:04) 5. A new meaning to “Heavy Metal Fan”: (5:00) 6. We put a call in to the UK to speak to their head of Future Mobility Dr Tim Leverton about where Jaguar is going in the future (6:04) 7. And Brian Smith has some quirky news • Electric Planes (13:56) • Segway mobile chair (17:53) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 29 February 2020

DB: Alan Finlay is a great friend of the program and is a respected traffic engineer and transport planner. His family has had twelve Holdens over the years with a predominance in the early part, I believe. DB: Alan, I looked at your first six cars, the first five from an FJ to an EH were Specials and the next one at H.K. was a premier. Were you the rich family in the street we all envied? AF: No, not at all, though. We were very much a middle-class family, but something I don't know what it was in 1969, probably with a bit of goading from me, convinced my father that he should go up a level and get the premier for his next car. The other thing I remember about that car is that I talked him into the more powerful 186S six-cylinder motor rather than just the one eight six. DB: The S was it a performance car. AF: Absolutely not. I mean, the FC Holden, I remember well, which was my mother's car, which was bought secondhand. I think when I was about 4 years old, I remember some very cold trips in that car going up to the Blue Mountains in winter with no heater and of course, no radio. And we all had to take blankets and other stuff to keep us warm. DB: And that was the special. Now, you raced an E H. Holden was their great success with that. AF: I wouldn't say great success. It was a bog-standard, Holden EH1 7 9 manual, so it had a large 179 cubic inch motor and manual transmission. It was not the much-coveted S4, which was a special Bathurst edition that Holden put together to try and win us, which had slightly better brakes and a few other things. But I wouldn't say it was greatly successful. But in its class, which I think was in 2000 to 3000 cc category for standard production cars on a good day, I could be up in the sort of second or third place, get a situation. DB: Did it have a 179 badge on the back? They were special. AF: They were. Yes. And thankfully, mine stayed on the back of the car and didn't become a belt buckle, which happened to a lot of other 179 batches. DB: The EH that you raced went out with a bang? AF: Yes, it did. I was competing at a hill climb at Amaroo Park in the early 70s and trying to better my times. It was towards the end of the day. And I think I'd had about six runs and I was going for a really good time on what would have been my second last run. And as I revved the car to its limit in first gear, I heard an almighty bang and I thought the worst. I thought I'd blown the motor. But as it turned out, the bang was created by one of the fan blades coming off the fan and actually almost piercing right through the bonnet. The fan blade was actually sticking out through the bonnet, and thankfully the rest of the motor in the car was alright. So the solution was to actually remove the whole fan blade assembly and then another frame friendly and helpful competitor managed to have a hacksaw in his tool kit and so we sawed off the other half of the blade that was still attached to the assembly and put it back on the car. So I limped home with a two-bladed rather than a four-bladed fan. Thankfully, didn't get stuck in heavy traffic, so didn't overheat. DB: You did that for balance, didn't you? AF: Yes, absolutely. Because otherwise, it had three blades on the fan and of course, one of them was completely offset by not having its mate on the other side of the hub. So it would have been a very noisy and vibrating sort of operation of the engine if we hadn't taken the other blade off. DB: Alan lovely to talk to you. Thank you very much for your time. AF: Thanks, David. Always, always happy to talk. DB: That's Alan Finlay, a person who came from a family of devout Holden owners for a while until final reality settled in with times that were a-changing.

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that practices what it preaches, most of the time, on the subject of cars and transport. This week we concentrate on Holden, that famous Australia car brand that will soon cease to exist. In the news 1. From Craft to economies of scale (1:22) 2. General Motors did the Holden name well (2:32) 3. Was the first Holden that good (3:37) 4. Button plan (4:32) 5. Did Holden build the wrong type of cars (5:39) 6. And we hear from a range of people whose families owned holdens from the first model. • Fred Brain and 1969 350 Monaro (6:52) • Terry Thompson owning old Holden (15:53) • Alan Finlay – racing and EH (21:02 You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 22 February 2020

Hello and welcome to Overdrive a program that samples and savours the world of cars and transport 1. Coronavirus leads to parts shortage (1:18) 2. Hyundai/Canoo to co-develop all-electric platform (2:05) 3. Mazda CX-30 (2:58) 4. Audi Sales – at last some good news (3:48) 5. Formula 1: 'carbon neutral' by 2030? (4:36) 6. And car ads at the Superbowl • Audi’s weird one (5:52) • Kia’s sentimental one (14:14) • Genesis’ attempt at humour (18:03) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 15 February 2020

Hello and welcome to Overdrive where we climb the hills, tackle the bends and endure the potholes of issues to do with motoring and transport. 1. Volkswagen leads in global sales (1:25) 2. Jaguar Land Rover’s better seat (2:22) 3. DeLorean comeback (3:26) 4. Honk more, wait more (4:26) 5. Sustainable transport - Carrots and sticks (5:10) 6. We hear from BMW about their latest update you can get over the internet (6:52) 7. We have an interview with Damien Meredith from Kia on what is different in buyers minds now from the past and (11:52) 8. We have a chat with Brian smith on making people movers look less ugly (17:14) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 8 February 2020

Damien Meredith is the Chief Operating Officer for Kia Australia. He is a down to earth bloke that knows that his first task is to sell cars now, which will then provide the foundation for future developments. In the full year of 2019 when the market declined by 7.8%, Kia did what no other top ten manufacturer did, it increased its sales over 2018 volumes. It is not all wonder and light. The increase was due to a 16.5% increase in Kia’s Cerato. All their other models decreased, although the reduction was mostly better than average. Part of the decline may have been some cannibalising of existing model sales by their new Seltos small SUV that they bought onto the market in mid-October and by the end of the year it had sold over 2,000 vehicles. Towards the end of 2020, they will bring in an even smaller SUV, the Stonic. We caught up with Damien, in a bit of a noisy area at the Australian Open Tennis tournament for which Kia is the major sponsoring partner.

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that ponders the philosophical and the practical aspects of motoring and transport. • Car sales for 2019 (1:33) • Another airbag recall (2:33) • Rolls Royce Car Sales are booming (3:35) • Making ‘Ice Missiles’ illegal (4:54) • Motoring Minute – Lotus Electric (6:13) • What to do in a car in a bush fire (7:38) • Motoring Minute – Maserati Levante SUV (2:17) • Kia’s quest for greater sales (13:24) • Car value if previously owned by a celebrity? (14:25) • Motoring Minute – Maserati Levante SUV (16:38) • Banjo Paterson and transport data (17:49) • Quirky news – Road testing a Kombi (20:33) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 1 February 2020

Hello this is Overdrive a program about the facts, the fun and the fiction of motoring and transport 1. ACCC issues new Takata airbag warning for thousands of cars (1:35) 2. The $73b company with no name: Fiat Chrysler, Peugeot (2:45) 3. Holden announces exclusive SUV and Ute line-up (3:35) 4. NSW’s smartphone-detecting traffic cams go live this weekend (5:31) 5. Stink bugs delay Hyundai & Kia Shipments (6:22) 6. New Kia logo (7:53) 7. ‘Smart’ headphones to warn pedestrians of road dangers being developed (8:19) 8. Last week we spoke of the top of the range Nissan Navarra N trek Warrior dual cab ute. We covered the specifications now this week Rob Fraser takes it down the Blue Rag track in Victoria (9:45) 9. And I play part of an interview I did for a radio documentary on disability and transport (16:10) 10. And in Quirky news – Brian Smith and I discuss how car companies help the Apollo Space mission (31:20) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news

At the premiere of the movie Machine, which is a documentary film about artificial intelligence, one of the featured experts was Professor Toby Walsh. Professor Walsh is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence who has held research positions all over Europe and also in Australia, including the University of New South Wales. He was named by a newspaper as a rock star of Australian Digital Revolution (but that was The Australian). The movie touches on autonomous driving and there is an item from an interview with Audi’s Head of Predevelopment specifically about autonomous driving later in this newsletter. But I also interviewed Prof Walsh. Too often we approach a subject from our special interest area and fail to look at the broader context that will be driven by politics, business and even crime. Transport implications could be outweighed but many other factors. The key approach that Prof Walsh says we need to take is how we give time and effort to what we feed into these artificial machines and time and effort to analyse the nature of the outcomes.

Dyan Currie is the Chief Planner for Brisbane City Council and she was also the president of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA) at the time Kirsty Kelly was the CEO. It was a significant time and one that is worth reflecting on. We had a chat with Dyan soon after Kirsty Kelly (who Dyan worked with at the PIA) joined the AITPM. • Place Making • Applying a sense of place to work and institute Environments • The Value of Organisations supporting participation in Institutes • Working with Kirsty at PIA means understanding the nature of members and their interaction with the Institute • Transport very much involves an eclectic range of Professions • Social Media • Dealing with Change • Working with the political process

The Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management is taking another major step as it continues its growth and influence from humble beginnings to a major institute in the field of traffic and transport planning. It has created the position of Chief Executive Officer. The inaugural CEO of the AITPM is Kirsty Kelly. We chatted with Kirsty soon after the announcement. She spoke about • Awareness of the AITPM • Who did PIA represent? • Kirsty knows about volunteering • Social Media • Bringing together different divisions • Recognizing and helping AITPM branches around the country • Communication • Recognising that everyone comes from a unique position • Change is not about forgetting the past • The political process – If we play how do we play

Hello this is Overdrive a program about trains, planes and automobiles, but mainly automobiles. 1. FCAI releases November 2019 new vehicle sales figures (1:21) 2. Tesla boss Elon Musk wins defamation trial over 'pedo guy' tweet (2:53) 3. Five stars for BMW 1 Series. Four stars for Peugeot Partner (3:37) 4. New Ford Transit (4:15) 5. Top uni teams contest Formula SAE-A (5:08) 6. UK’s first ‘bat-friendly’ highway crossing deployed in Worcestershire (6:00) 7. Motoring minute – Range Rover Velar (6:40) 8. Rob Fraser tests the latest rugged four-wheel drive ute (7:50) 9. I interview an international expert on Artificial Intelligence that may become part of our cars (14:01) 10. Motoring minute – Volkswagen Amarok (19:33) 11. Quirky news – Brian Smith and I discuss cars that aim to make your phone redundant (20:37) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 14December 2019

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that looks at the fantasises and fallacies of anything to do with motoring and transport. 1. Australia’s first regional AV project scoops national ITS award (1:41) 2. Bertrand Piccard breaks world distance record for a hydrogen-powered vehicle in a Hyundai NEXO (2:44) 3. The Premiere of the movie Machine and its relationship to autonomous vehicles (3:34) 4. Paris to Amazon: No Free Delivery for You (2:47) 5. New Honda Accord (5:32) 6. Artificial Intelligence Improves Tyre Performance (6:25) 7. Motoring minute – Honda CRV (7:04) 8. We hear a story about what it is like to be a young mechanic that makes a mistake at a major motorbike racing event (8:23) 9. Motoring minute – Great Wall Steed (12:57) 10. After the premiere of a movie about artificial intelligence including autonomous vehicles, I have a chat with Miklos Kiss from Audi about the company’s activities in this field (14:11) 11. Motoring minute – Jaguar F-Pace (19:59) 12. Quirky news – Brian Smith and I discuss the link between classic cars, democracy and IS! (21:05) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 7 December 2019

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that looks at the factors facing our attitude and actions to motoring and transport. 1. Uber Loses London Licence – again (1:31) 2. Tesla unveils its long-awaited electric Cyber pick-up truck (2:38) 3. Ford reveals Mach-E electric SUV with a Mustang logo (3:58) 4. Mercedes unveils bot one but 3 large SUV’s (5:18) 5. Aston Martin’s first SUV announced (6:25) 6. Hyundai Santa Cruz Ute confirmed (7:13) 7. Motoring minute – Nissan X Trail (8:03) 8. We catch up with a gentleman racer at the Phillip Island Island Magic meeting. You won’t believe the car he was racing in the historic class (9:14) 9. We chat to Rob Fraser about another more attainable electric vehicle the Hyundai Kona (14:40) 10. Motoring minute (Nissan Nivara N Track) 11. Quirky news – Brian Smith and I discuss why car companies are so keen to send things into space – Lamborghini is the latest one (21:24) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 30 November 2019

I have just come back from the Phillip Island circuit where I watched the Island Magic meeting. Not the biggest race meeting at the racetrack. It is made for those who love to race with the only spectators being family and friends. The events range from formula V open wheelers to Sport cars including Lamborghinis, Lotuses, BMWs and Audis. I was there because Overdrive’s Fred Brain had his 1969 Monaro GTS in the Historic Sport Car Category. We will talk to Fred next week. One of the other competitors in the class was Mick Stupka in the oldest car at the event. We sat in his support truck for a chat and I asked him to describe his racing vehicle. I had a chat with Mick about the Citroen and some of his other adventures.

Hello this is Overdrive a program with an infatuation about trains, planes and automobiles. 1. The latest vehicle sales figures especially for diesel, hybrid and electric vehicles (1:21) 2. Rally Australia World Championship event cancelled (2:17) 3. Hyundai Motor Group Develops World’s First Road Noise Active Noise Control Technology (3:30) 4. Hyundai Motor Demonstrates Autonomous Driving Tech Capabilities with First Successful Truck Platooning Trial (4:31) 5. One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Scooter-Bots (5:29) 6. Motoring minute – Interns fun project to sit beside molly Taylor in a works rally car (6:40) 7. We chat to Alan Zurvas about a motor bike event especially the trend to electric bikes (7:47) 8. Motoring minute – Hyundai Kona Electric (16:46) 9. Quirky news – Car status becomes an issue at a school (18:01) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 16 November 2019

At the premiere of the documentary film Machine, a movie that explores artificial intelligence in general and includes reference to autonomous driving, Audi spoke about where they are at in terms of using this technology The film Produces, incorporated comments from Miklós Kiss, Audi’s Head of Predevelopment of Automated Driving, because their work is a good example of how technology will not just make the things we currently do, easier, but it could change our behavior and the very shape of our cities. I spoke with Miklós who made a number of interesting comments. • Car companies have moved into a more realistic view of autonomous systems. “It wasn't really secret before, but there has been truly a hype and there was a hype in presentations and demonstrations. And what many of us have ignored is that much harder work to put that on the street, put it into worldwide operation than putting it on a test track”. • As a premium brand, Audi has to tackle autonomous driving relative to their market. Autonomous systems for taxis in well defined areas and public transport in well defined corridors. But as a luxury brand Audi has to try and develop cars that can be would around the world. So, the issue of varying road conditions, signposting and road rules is the major problem they have to address. • Governments have to look at maintaining the road system so that autonomous vehicles can operate (good line marking for a start) but it is not that complex. • Distraction is a problem when the driver is in control, but if there is a period of autonomous driving, but the driver has to stay awake incase the car no longer can control its self in the conditions, then having had some distraction for the driver (such as letting them watch a movie) is very helpful rather than letting them fall asleep. • As we move from striving to inform the driver about road conditions and vehicle dynamics to a place where the people in the car can relax or work, means a whole different approach to the infotainment screens and what and how they can display things. • Level 5 autonomy, where a car can chauffeur you anywhere at any time is “from my perspective, a bit of science fiction. One day we'll get it. But I never would say yes. I think Level 3 and level 4 systems are quite near. And we see that in the next decade”. • Miklós has a strong sense of job security. There will be a need for further development for many years to come.

Driverless cars: not necessarily a force for good David Brown When driverless cars were first discussed they were portrayed as leading to a motoring utopia. With a robotic chauffeur we could more usefully employed reading a book, watching a video or doing some work. Increasingly we are seeing alternative views. A recent report from the researchers at the University of Sydney's business school’s Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies “Moving People in the Future: Land passenger transport and “new” mobility technology” adds to the belief that autonomous vehicles may not be a force for good. We interviewed Yale Wong who is a research analyst at the ITLS and co-author of the research. Capacity Cities are places where space is a very scarce commodity. There's only a limited capacity in terms of road space and what a lot of these autonomous vehicles could mean in the future is it can actually replace a lot of the travel that's currently taking place on more spatially efficient modes like public transport, bus and rail in particular, and especially if you think about that dense kind of CBD in a subway kind of environments. If people are moving from these high capacity modes into this kind of unlimited counterpoint transportation, an autonomous taxi service, then that's going to be a big recipe in terms of a disaster, causing gridlock on the road network and with negative impacts on all sorts of externalities such as emissions, urban form, social inclusion and the like. Dead Running This is one of the key issues and one where I think government and governance has a key role to play in actually putting some regulation or institutional overlay to circumvent some of those issues. Ownership model - Mobility as a service A lot of what we’re talking about is actually predicated on the ownership model of these autonomous cars. One of the things we've been pushing for, but we don't know if this reality will emerge, is where these vehicles are shared. So people access them as a treat. So this links back to mobility as a service kind of concepts. We think if we can move towards greater sharing both of these vehicle assets but also of space, so people sharing within vehicles then there will be a much better outcome. But this sort of future is by no means guaranteed on its current trajectory. Corridors I think autonomy may well come within very defined corridors. Autonomous technologies have the potential to be to really transforming in terms of how we provide public transport by actually cutting the link between quantity of service and its labour costs. We know most of the costs in providing bus services is in labour. That is one potential, but I think the more realistic kind of potential is: because they've become so cheap it actually destroys a lot of public transport because people won't be taking large vehicles. They'll be taking smaller autonomous shuttles or pods and the like and we already talked in the session about how this is linked to congestion and use of road space. The role of bus operators One of the current major roles of bus operators is in managing labour. But with autonomous vehicles this is significantly reduced. Furthermore because of the technical complexity, buses may have to go back to the manufacturer for all of their servicing. If you want to have a competitive system this could push us towards government ownership of the vehicles as is the case in Singapore. If this eventuates then there may not need to be bus operators anymore as we know them now. An entire layer might be removed from the business ecosystem. So I think these Bus Operators have to sit up and think about what is their value. What sort of risks they are willing to take up?

At the driverless vehicle summit held in Sydney there was a demonstration from Students from Monash University that might be a cute exercise for those who are interested in motor racing. It turns out, however, that it is a comprehensive exercise that prepares students for working in teams, with other disciplines and with business. And it has students making a commitment in their effort that many other faculties could only dream about. The basic elements are • Monash has a wide range of teams participating in major projects • Teams can have 120 or more students involved from many different disciplines • The Racing teams participate in a longstanding worldwide competition between universities. • It is a full racing team that races on circuits around the world • Up to 40 students may go overseas with the team to compete • Initially it was petrol cars and then it became electric vehicles and now it is autonomous vehicles. • Monash was ranked number one with their petrol car against many older and larger universities. Marc Pizzi is the Industry portfolio manager at Monash University.

Hello this is Overdrive a program that tries to spread the word about trains, planes, and automobiles. 1. Public given opportunity to experience autonomous emergency braking. (1:21) 2. The Future of the Streetlight Might Be in the Past (2:27) 3. Europe’s first full-sized autonomous bus demonstrated at CAV Scotland event (3:14) 4. Car-Mounted Ads Take a New Direction: Data Collection (4:09) 5. Tesla Model Three (5:14) 6. Motoring minute – Audi SQ8 (6:07) 7. We chat to Rob Fraser about some electric cars especially the Jaguar iPace and how they are developing (7:17) 8. Motoring minute – Kia Sportage (15:57) 9. Motoring minute – Car Sales (17:04) 10. Quirky news – and a good session with Brian smith with some quirky news stories on one suggestion to install a monorail in Auckland. (18:12) 11. Motoring minute – Rally Australia Cancels Rally (24:15) 12. Motoring minute – Subaru Liberty (25:45) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity

Emily Middleton is doing a communications degree at Macquarie University and is also doing some work here for the Overdrive radio program. So we sent her on a mission. She went down to Canberra to sit beside Molly Taylor in her Subaru works rally car just to see what it's like. This was a bit of an adventure as Emily usually drives her parent’s Camry and there has been no family association with motor sport or driving fast in any way. How did she feel? “I honestly felt quite safe. It because I was so strapped in so tightly, I felt like nothing could happen to me. Clearly, I wasn't driving, but I felt like Molly was in control. It felt like a roller coaster; but in a safe way. And how did she react to the speed. Had she ever done 200km/hr anywhere? “No, not at all. Nowhere close to it. I was trying to look at the dials while she was driving, but I was more focussed on where we were going. But I did see that she was clocking over 200. And I was very, very surprised that a car could go that fast. I didn't know people could ever get there, especially on a dirt road!” How was Molly? “She was lovely; really, really lovely. Very reassuring. Very fun to talk to which was nice. I got to be her co-driver (navigator) for a little bit. She explained to us her notes that the driver needs and it's almost like a different language. And just for a bit of fun she got us to read them out to her. And when we were reading them, clearly, we have no idea where each note was meant to be read, but we read them out and she laughed at us while she was driving the car saying things like ‘That was 200 metres ago’. Did Emily did you get the bug? Does she think that she might ever dabble a little in going faster in a controlled environment? “I do get a rise. It was a lot of fun, but I don't know if I can trust myself driving that fast. I would definitely go again with somebody else driving, but maybe not myself. I don't think my mother would like it”. Did she describe the experience to her parents and what was their reaction? “I did describe it to them, I said I was going fast but I felt in control. They just laughed at me. And they said ‘How is it possibly in control’ and I said “You don't understand because you haven't been in it. But it is very controlled and also very fast at the same time. And they just they couldn't comprehend that. The entire radio interview with Emily at Emily’s video of the experience Previous radio interviews with Molly Taylor – Subaru team driver Molly Taylor: Determination and focus on the hard path to rallying success http://drivenmedia.com.au/wp/molly-taylor-determination-and-focus-on-the-hard-path-to-rallying-success/

Last year, I attended a student leadership summit organised by students from Monash University and led by a postgraduate candidate, Laura Aston, under the auspices of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, it was held at Box Hill. I spoke to a local representative there who regretted, to some degree, that the seat of Boxall in the state government was considered a safe seat. But in the 2018 state election, the Andrews government increased its majority, including winning the seat of Box Hill for the first time in 26 years. Their candidate was Paul Hamer, and in his maiden speech to parliament, he noted that his background was as a professional engineer, which was somewhat unusual for a politician. Can an engineer add something different to the political and government functions? I interviewed Paul and he discussed the following topics: • Engineers are underrepresented in Parliament • His working experience • Engineers look at the long term – Governments generally not • Being in Government means that your words are analysed in detail • Being a local member means that you meet a wider range of people. • Public servants go some great work that is not always reflected in the public debate • The value and strength of his family and their values: His father was a child in the Holocaust • The value of professional Institutes and the input they can give. The interview began as follows: DB: Paul, thank you very much for your time. I know you have an extremely busy schedule. PH: No problem at all. Thanks, David. DB: Are engineers are underrepresented? PH: Absolutely. For my inaugural speech, I did a little bit of research. And in the Victorian parliament since the first year of responsible government, which was 1856, they'd only been 31 engineers who had any form of engineering qualifications. So that would that included a diploma or undergraduate or postgraduate level. So I am number 32. And there's been almost 2000 members of parliament in that time. PH: So that is a poor representation amongst the engineering community in parliament. And I daresay that our state parliament and the federal parliament over its time has similarly been underrepresented.

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that pushes the parameters of discussing motoring and transport. 1. Engineers have figured out how to charge electric car batteries in 10 minutes (1:24) 2. Hyundai Ioniq (3:02) 3. Warnings for mobile speed cameras (4:02) 4. World premiere for the new Golf digitalised connected and intelligent (5:05) 5. Ford makes a Mustang like SUV supposedly (5:59) 6. Urban and Suburban Lifestyles Are More Similar Than You’d Think (7:01) 7. Motoring minute – Honda Civic (8:31) 8. We chat to Paul Hamer MP, only the 32 person since 1856 to have engineering qualifications and be an MP in the Victorian Parliament (9:44) 9. Motoring minute – Solar Edge Inverters (16:47) 10. Rob Fraser and I talk about the joys of driving in Tasmania (17:53) 11. Quirky news – Ring emergency line to complain about an ice-cream truck parked outside their house (23:11) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 9 November 2019

Welcome to Overdrive, a program that ponders the particulars of motoring and transport. 1. Hyundai Kona Electric earns ANCAP 5-star safety rating in first-ever EV crash tested in Australia and the results are good. (1:33) 2. Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot working out a merger (2:16) 3. Brabham automotive announces BT62 competition specification (3:06) 4. Lightyear One: the car built to perform on energy efficiency (4:05) 5. Estonian police offer ‘road breaks’ for first-time speeders (5:00) 6. Motoring minute – Road Safety Curtesy (5:50) 7. Rob Fraser and discuss the new Audi A1 (7:05) 8. Motoring minute – Autonomous vehicles – no nirvana yet, if ever (12:26) 9. Marc Pizzi from Monash University talks about the student racing team that is now into autonomous cars (13:40) 10. Motoring minute – Quality SUVs (19:49) 11. Quirky news – Cars doing things for you, you don’t want (20:55) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 2 November 2019

Hello this is Overdrive a program that looks at the purpose of and the passion for trains, planes and automobiles. 1. Congestion charge for Sydney & Melbourne (1:48) 2. “Worried” Volkswagen pulls back on new Turkish factory as sanctions bite (2:56) 3. Dyson Cancels electric car project (3:58) 4. EU states support Denmark’s diesel ban proposal (4:51) 5. Hyundai Smart Cruise Control Technology (5:32) 6. Bathurst-winning team cops massive fine (6:30) 7. Motoring minute – RAM 2500 (7:40) 8. We sent our work experience person, Emily Middleton to Canberra to sit in the passenger seat beside Molly Taylor in her works Subaru rally car. Emily, who drives a Camry, gives us her report. (9:10) 9. Motoring minute – Kia Seltos (14:14) 10. Alan Zuvas has been driving the new Toyota Supra. He tells us what it is like (15:12) 11. Motoring minute – Volkswagen Crafter (21:18) 12. Quirky news – Child drives his toy tractor to the fair (22:21) 13. Quirky news – tuning cars the modern way (24:30) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 26 October 2019

Hello and welcome to Overdrive a program that puts a magnifying glass to the role of cars and transport in our society and tries to burn a hole in it. 1. Dyson cancels electric car project (1:27) 2. Active Transportation Transforms America (2:32) 3. Kia Seltos (3:50) 4. Tyre wear is out of sight and out of mind (4:58) 5. Veloster Grappler (5:53) 6. Motoring minute – Peugeot 308 GT (6:54) 7. We hear from Our motoring correspondent in Melbourne about the details from the launch of the Nissan N Trek Warrior (8:12) 8. Motoring minute – Pedestrian detection with AEB (13:09) 9. Rob Fraser and I talk about driving the new Kia Seltos in the great outdoors (14:20) 10. Motoring minute – Skoda Kodiaq (20:37) 11. A quirky news story with Brian Smith You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 19 October 2019

Without major marketing fanfare, Ford Australia, in conjunction with the Amy Gillet Foundation, is provided free driver training in techniques that are not the normal part of getting your L plates. Designed for new and young drivers, DSFL offers hands-on training delivered by professional instructors to help participants become safer drivers. The course focuses on techniques not taught during L-plate driver instruction and aims to increase the use of safe and calm driving techniques as well as teach new drivers how to share the road with other vehicles and cyclists. Liz Ampt a behavioural scientist and transport data expert went along to the launch. Some of the things she noted included: With the advent of airbags, the best way to hold the steering wheel is with your hands in the 9:15 position rather than the traditional “ten-to-two”. Young people are given the chance to experience heavy braking situations. One approach to help drivers avoid dooring cyclists is called the Dutch reach, in which a driver uses their far hand (left hand for right-hand drive vehicles) to open the car door which forces drivers to turn their heads and look behind then hopefully to check for cyclists. We have all heard lectures about the dangers of drunk driving but the reality is that when we have been drinking, we do not appreciate how much our reactions and skills have diminished. At the Ford day people can test their skills in a sobriety test then put on an impairment suit. This has been specially designed with weights attached to your arms, thighs, legs and ankles and you also where earmuffs and goggles that distort your vision. You then have to repeat the sobriety test. The results often bring hilarity to the on-lookers. The program is backed up with work from the respected researcher Dr Marilyn Johnson. One of the exercises Dr Johnson did was to get truck drivers to ride the bicycle on a certain course in the city. Initially the experience drivers would sit back and say “What do we have to do this exercise for?”. But after they have done it, they could soon point out other truck driver errors when dealing with bikes. Their research also showed that almost one third (32 per cent) of people surveyed said they are not aware of common techniques such as the “one metre rule”, where drivers are advised to leave one metre distance between their vehicle and cyclists (driving 60 km/h or less), and only half (53 percent) observe it. The research also found that 68 percent of cyclists are concerned every time a vehicle passes them while on the road. The Driving Skills for Life is a free course funded by Ford and carried out at six locations around Australia.

Welcome to Overdrive, a program where we occasionally include facts in our good discussions about motoring and transport. 1. The latest Car Sales figures (1:24) 2. AAA Warns Pedestrian Detection Systems Don’t Work When Needed Most (2:31) 3. Tesla's Smart Summon Performance Doesn't Match Marketing Hype (3:44) 4. New Nissan Navara N-TREK Warrior (4:58) 5. Audi Q3 – 2nd Generation launched in Australia (5:54) 6. Motoring minute – Nissan Path Finder (7:08) 7. Our resident artist Dean Oliver discusses a one-day jaunt in a series of Jaguars (8:29) 8. Motoring minute – Volkswagen Touareg (15:05) 9. Motoring minute – Volkswagen BMW Z4 (16:05) 10. Rob Fraser gives some details on the launch on the new Audi Q3 (17:16) 11. A quirky news story with Brian Smith (22:58) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 12 October 2019

Welcome to Overdrive, a program that pontificates on issues of motoring and transport 1. Suzuki 5 Year Unlimited KM Warranty & New CPS Program Update/Holden offers seven years’ free scheduled servicing on Colorado 4x4 (1:21) 2. Uber Australia the first ride-share to implement 5 star ANCAP vehicle safety requirement (2:07) 3. The augmented reality app for the 2019 Range Rover is helpful for any new driver (2:52) 4. Jaguar Land Rover to close plants for a week as Brexit safeguard (4:09) 5. Tesla releases a fully vegan Model 3 to the delight of animal lovers (5:15) 6. Motoring minute - Subaru Outback (6:15) 7. Rob Fraser and I talk about some seven-seater SUV alternatives (7:26) 8. Motoring minute – Ford’s Drive For Life training program (12:06) 9. Motoring minute – Honda CRV 7 seater (13:11) 10. We hear from Sydney University about their recent report on how driverless cars are not necessarily a force for good” (14:27) 11. Motoring minute – Hyundai Side Centre Airbag (20:56) 12. And a welcome return of Brian smith with a quirky news story and a lead for safely getting your chicken across a road (22:00) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 28 September 2019

Welcome to Overdrive, a program that ponders on issues of motoring and transport 1. Hyundai Motor Group develops centre side airbag (1:52) 2. Ford - Driving Skills for Life (2:47) 3. Judge refuses to toss lawsuit challenging Musk pay package (3:46) 4. World's rarest Ford Falcon going to auction (4:48) 5. Mazda to Reveal First Mass-Production Battery EV at Tokyo Motor Show (5:37) 6. It’s a bike. It’s a car. No it’s a FUV (6:00) 7. Motoring Minute - Takata air bags (7:42) 8. Rob Fraser has a chat about some of the cars we have tested this week (9:09) 9. Motoring Minute - Landcruiser sells big (15:31) 10. Motoring Minute - Volkswagen pays up in Australia for dieselgate (17:07) 11. Liz Ampt covers the launch of the fifth year of Fords Driving Skills for Life free training program (18:37) 12. Chicken leads to make crossing the road safer (25:25) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity Originally broadcast 28 September 2019

Welcome to Overdrive, a program that probes the issues of motoring and transport In this program we have: 1. Volkswagen to pay up to $127m in Australia for scandal (1:27) 2. NSW: 40km/h slow down, move over laws expanded as trial ends (2:27) 3. Ford Australia Developing a local Ute (3:45) 4. Tesla Pick up to be revealed in November (4:47) 5. Toyota has expanded its Takata recall (5:42) 6. New Venue Announced (6:39) 7. Motoring Minutes on • the Honda Civic (7:48), • the Infiniti leaving Australia (14:50), • the Peugeot 508 (16:19), and • Mazda rotary (25:00) 8. Rob Fraser have a chat about his trip up the coast (9:32) 9. And then he and I discuss, in some detail, Hyundai’s latest SUV the Venue (17:57) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 21 September 2019

At this year's 2019 Shannon's Classic they had over nineteen hundred cars from car clubs all over Australia. The winner of the concourse to elegance was David Burton with his beautifully restored 1913 Rolls-Royce. I was honoured to sit in the passenger seat while David drove the vehicle around the Sydney Motorsport Park Race track for some parade laps. We've had David on the program a number of times and then why and how much better it is to have him now with such a victory. David joins us on the line.

Welcome to Overdrive, a program where we wander through the world of motoring and transport. In this program we have: 1. Infiniti Exits Australia (1:29) 2. Takata Airbag Recall (2:37) 3. Trump's brinkmanship may backfire on US car industry (3:46) 4. Mazda’s Rotary Engine Set for a Return (4:51) 5. Is the Mondeo going Electric? (6:03) 6. McLaren’s GT Supercar arrives in Australia (7:04) 7. Motoring Minute – Ford Ranger (8:15) 8. Motoring Minute – Car Sales (9:21) 9. Beige Toyota Camry (10:25) 10. Motoring Minute – Citroen AirCross (19:03) 11. Rob Fraser talks about towing (18:12) 12. Quirky news with Brian Smith –(24:24) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity Originally broadcast 14 September 2019

I went along to the monthly Machines and Macchiatos Car Show held in the Harbord bowling club car park and supporting Bear Cottage and Help Cure Brain Cancer charities. A wonderful event with classic and modern cars representing a very wide range of different vehicles. I took along the latest Suzuki Jimny, a little boxy four-wheel drive shaped like a Mini Me of a traditional Jeep. We parked it next to a similar vehicle from a different era. It was a 1981 Daihatsu F20 JV. Melissa Lea is a co-owner of the vehicle. I interviewed her about the car. It turns out that her interest has nothing to do with the mechanics of the vehicle. Melissa and her partner just loved the car. They became passionate about this sort of vehicle when they were in Indonesia last November and saw quite a few of them cruising around on the street. As soon as they got back to Australia they began looking and ultimately found this one, which was in Goulburn, and was in excellent condition, no rust and only just over 100,000 kilometers on the clock. While Melissa is not fascinated by the mechanics of the three cylinder, she had to get back to basics in re-learning to drive a manual car. She said it meant the she had to really get back to knowing what you were doing. A lack of luxury features and no power steering also needed some adjustment. But it is a car that other people enjoy seeing as well. Melissa was quite surprised in how well it is received by people who see it on the street. Melissa said “the colour is really well received. People tend to flock over to us and have a billion questions and are curious as to where we found it, it being in such perfect condition. So definitely I felt like it was a bit of a winner”. She did have a look at the new Jinmy which she liked particularly for its “Little Jeep” like appearance. She had thought of buying one but had heard that there was a long waiting list. Melissa and her boyfriend were hesitant to come to the car show because they thought that it would be dominated by big, flashy and powerful cars, but they were warningly received. They have no plans in selling the car in the future. Melissa summarized her feeling “I think it kind of makes me appreciate more how well the cars were made and they had so much more character. I just feel like things are so mass produced these days and I just feel like every single car there [at the car show] had its own story it had its own personality and yet it reflects I think the owners as well.

Hello and welcome to Overdrive a program that panders to the world of cars and transport I’m David Brown In this program we have: 1. New cars sales for August 2019 (1:32) 2. Ending Melbourne Bike Share the right decision? (2:01) 3. VW invests in holographic technology (3:26) 4. Jaguar Land Rover wants to beam 3D movies right into your eyes (4:09) 5. Tesla adds games and aps to keep you entertained while charging (4:39) 6. Hyundai Motor Group reveals personal electric scooter capable of 20km range (5:11) 7. ‘Road-racing’ deterrent pilot average speed camera made permanent (6:09) 8. Motoring Minute – Suzuki Vitara (7:03) 9. Singapore transport – Part of a very functional city– David Campbell and David Brown compare notes (8:07) 10. Motoring Minute – RAM 1500 Ute (14:15) 11. Motoring Minute – Artificial intelligence to identify poor line marking (15:34) 12. Rob Fraser discusses how cars can become members of the family (16:42) 13. Motoring Minute – Dopes “User pay” really work in transport? (21:59) 14. Quirky news with Brian Smith - Elon Musk tunnels – Fact or fantasy (23:03) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 7 September 2019

Welcome to Overdrive, where we cover everything to do with motoring and transport from the sublime to the ridiculous. I’m David Brown In this program we have: 1. British drivers face ban on hands-free mobiles (1:38) 2. QTA Announces ‘Eyes On Fatigue’ In-Vehicle Technology Pilot (2:41) 3. Study Finds Nearly Half Of Shared E-Scooters Being Ridden Illegally (3:25) 4. Drivewyze introduces notification service for truck drivers (4:40) 5. Toyota to launch road maintenance study in Japan (5:28) 6. We hear the second report from Rob Fraser on the anniversary of Nissan sports cars. This time the GTR super car. (6:14) 7. We took a new Suzuki Jimny four-wheel drive to a car show but it had to compete for attention with an old Daihatsu. We interview the owner (12:03) 8. And Brian Smith joins us again for a quirky news story on a competition for cargo bicycles (17:45) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 31 August 2019

Welcome to Overdrive, a program about the wonderful world of motoring and transport. I’m David Brown In this program we have: News stories 1. Car companies withdraw ads from the Alan Jones program (1:31) 2. Heads of GM, Ford among CEOs rejecting shareholder-centric model (2:39) 3. The $8 Million Bugatti Centodieci's Radical Design Captures The Spirit Of The EB110 (3:40) 4. GetCharged unveils e-scooter charger in New York City (4:57) 5. The Problem with Amazon’s Cheap Gas Stunt (5:46) 6. Motoring Minute – Nissan GTR (7:35) 7. And we have the first instalment of an interview with David Berthon and his 1913 Rolls Royce.(9:15) 8. Motoring Minute – Jaguar e-Pace (16:07) 9. We hear from Rob Fraser who went to the 50th anniversary of the Nissan Z cars. (17:32) 10. And Brian smith joins us again for some quirky news including celebrating potholes (21:51) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 24 August 2019

Welcome to Overdrive, a program that digs up all sorts of information about the world of motoring and transport. This week we are in Adelaide at the Australia Institute of Traffic Planning and Management National conference I’m David Brown In this program we have: News stories 1. Few Aussies will own cars in 2050, predicts new study (1:18) 2. Honda’s new tactic for attracting first-time car buyers: esports (2:39) 3. Hyundai Motorsport set to go electric (3:35) 4. IIHS study shows knee airbags may not reduce injury in crashes (4:14) 5. NHTSA told Tesla to stop claiming its Model 3 was the safest car ever tested (5:03) 6. And Now, a Bicycle Built for None (5:44) 7. Motoring Minute – Toyota HiAce Crew Van (6:19) 8. Rob Fraser gives us a reason to drive to Western Australia (7:25) 9. Motoring Minute – Haval H9 (12:48) 10. And then he gives us a road test of a vehicle to do it in – VW Crafter Van (13:45) 11. Motoring Minute – Subaru Impreza (20:15) 12. And Brian Smith joins us again for some quirky news – Who gets the priority cars or pedestrians (20:15) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 10 August 2019 1. Few Aussies will own cars in 2050, predicts new study 2. Honda’s new tactic for attracting first-time car buyers: esports 3. Hyundai Motorsport set to go electric 4. IIHS study shows knee airbags may not reduce injury in crashes 5. NHTSA told Tesla to stop claiming its Model 3 was the safest car ever tested 6. And Now, a Bicycle Built for None And this has been overdrive. The Overdrive team and supports including David Campbell, Brian Smith Rob Fraser, and Paul Just. for doing the hard yards in supporting this program. Overdrive can be heard across Australia on the Community Radio network. You can find more information at Driven Media and previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify and FaceBook page OverdriveCity

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that relishes all sorts of information and experiences from the world of motoring and transport. This week we are in Adelaide at the Australia Institute of Traffic Planning and Management National conference I’m David Brown In this program we have: News stories 1. Hilux class action (1:33) 2. The UK auto industry is facing a slow death (2:27) 3. Tritium supplies EV chargers to Drive Energi (3:38) 4. Ford Mustang High Performance 2.3L (4:21) 5. In Madrid, a Car Ban Proves Stronger Than Partisan Politics (5:05) 6. YouTube and Netflix Will Soon Be Coming To Teslas Screens says Elon Musk (5:48) 7. We have an interview with the CEO of Jet Charge a company that produces products and systems to charge electric vehicles. What he says will blow you mind. (7:38) 8. We talk to the organiser of the Shannon’s Classic which has a huge number of great cars on display (15:35) 9. We have five motoring minutes • Ride-sharing is not working (6:25) • Volkswagen Crafter (14:35) • If I had all the money in the world I would get a Kia Carnival people mover (20:51) 10. And Brian Smith joins us again for some quirky news (21:50) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 10 August 2019

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program about trains, planes and automobiles I’m David Brown In this program we have: 1. Vfacts: Australian vehicle sales figures - The total market is down 8.4% (1:28) 2. Iacocca, the last of the supreme auto bosses, defined his generation (2:23) 3. Hyundai Motor Group Unveils World First CVVD Engine Technology (3:43) 4. Bubbles, bleeps and Linkin Park: electric cars now have to make strange noises by law (4:54) 5. Ford tackles last-mile delivery challenge with pedestrian couriers, algorithms (6:02) 6. We discuss the passing of Norma Dewis who worked for Jaguar for many years and was said to be Britain’s greatest test driver (9:12) 7. We have a chat to a bloke who owns a 1962 Holden utility while we were sitting in a 2019 Mitsubishi Triton. We could use his car because he wouldn’t take it out in the rain. (19:33) 8. There are five motoring minutes • Ford Ranger (7:10) • Honda CRV (8:00) • Subaru Eyesight technology (18:32) • Local pollution (17:39) • Genesis (26:12) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 6 July 2019

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program about cars and culture I’m David Brown In this program we have: News stories 1. London EV demand ‘rising’ since ULEZ intro, says Carwow (1:27) 2. Genesis Opens Doors On First Australian Flagship Studio in Sydney (2:39) 3. Names of automated-driving systems mislead motorists Prof Currie (3:37) 4. Competition will explore new ways to move people around Detroit (4:42) 5. Is there a better way to regulate peer-to-peer car sharing? (5:44) 6. Korean automakers rank highest in latest JD Power quality survey (6:48) 7. We have the third instalment in Rob Fraser’s preparing for traveling to the snow (10:09) 8. And a great interview with Professor Graham Currie about Lie, Damned lies and Autonomous vehicles (17:21) 9. There are five motoring minutes • Honda HRV (8:06) • The Toyota Fortuner Crusader (8:58) • The Infinti QX 80 (15:04) • Genesis and reliability (26:12) • People being mislead by car feature names (16:32) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 29 June 2019

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program where we put the world of motoring and transport under the microscope. I’m David Brown In this program we have news stories with David Campbell 1. UK to trial new ‘noise camera’ system to combat excessively loud vehicles 2. Hybrids are 14 times better than battery electric vehicles at reducing real-world carbon dioxide emissions 3. Google Maps ‘could soon let you know when taxi drivers take you on dodgy routes’ with automated app alerts. 4. China’s father of electric cars says hydrogen is future 5. Fiat Chrysler sued over alleged Jeep Wrangler 'death wobble' 6. Rob Fraser gives us the second installment on preparing your car to go to the snow 7. We talk to the Managing Director of Ssangyong Australia about how they are making a comeback in Australia. 8. Brian Smith and I talk about some quirky news 9. We have two motoring minutes • Lexus NX300H • Nissan Patrol You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 22 June 2019

I went to my local monthly car show, Machines and Macchiatos at Harbord which supports the Care Bears and Cure Brain Cancer charities which usually has a couple of lovely old Jaguars on display. To show the old and the new together, I borrowed the latest F-Type Jaguar. We parked it next to a beautiful yellow E type owned by a bloke called Murray. Some of the conversation about his car included the following: DB: You're six foot five inches tall. Can you get into your car easily? MMcA: It is the convertible. The top down makes it really easy. I still am a bit large with it. If you look at the car it's actually missing the sun visors. That was just impeding my vision while I was driving it so I took those off but when the roof's up I basically had the seat further back. It's like any short and low car to get into for someone of my size but it's I can do that. It's quite enough room for me to drive it. The interesting thing with my car is that it's a 72 [model] that's when it was delivered to Australia … February 1972. It's a little bit longer I think it's something like eight or nine inches longer for someone of my size you need that in the cabin. The series one the series two, I can't give in that is too tight for me. DB: You can see that very much with the doors. Can't you. MMcA: Yeah. That's why you notice the difference in size. The doors on those earlier models are much shorter DB: You can see that very much with the doors. Can't you? MMcA: Yeah. That's where you notice the difference in size. The doors on those earlier models are much shorter. You can see that, if you parked my next door as well. There's also some other things you'll notice when you see the series three and that's the flared guards they're actually popped the guards a little bit more as well. [00:02:42][14.3] DB: The early the E-Type Jaguars, and I believe Sir William Lyons even regretted this, was that the tyres didn't fill the wheel wells and they tended to look a little bit gawky in that regard. I think in the later ones, it looks a more complete package. MMcA: I think that's right. Well of course the technology in the tyres has changed so much in time and even in 72 I think the tyres are very different to what you get in the 60s. So it does very much fill the guards. If you look at mine it also doesn't have the wires on it. I have the wires at home and I drive with the Prolites just because it's so much simpler if you're driving more often than I do. If you're driving around the streets you don't get the problems you get with wire wheels. DB: Bumping and things? MMcA: I found that if you hit a pothole or something they go out of balance and you'd have them worked on again. DB: Have you had other Jaguars? MMcA: No I haven't actually. I've had lots of different cars but never a Jaguar. I never thought I'd get one of these. I think I was very fortunate to find it. DB: What was the passion? Why? MMcA: I wanted a nice car. A classic car of some sort. I actually was looking for an American car, Corvette in particular, but I don't fit in the Corvette. And I never thought I'd be able to find or afford one of those. I think the stars aligned for me and it just came up. It was a good car. The lady that was selling, she had actually knocked back a couple of people that came to look at it because she didn't like the people and she wouldn't let them buy her husband's car because her husband had passed away. And we clicked. We got on very, very well and she allowed me to buy it. DB: Was this a car of your youth? Did you lust after this car when you were young? MMcA: Oh I don't think anyone of my age didn't last after an e-type. DB: Murray Lovely to talk to you. MMcA: Thank you fantastic time. We sat in the F Type and had a chat. You may hear some cars go past in the background. I began by asking Murray what model his car was.

Welcome to Overdrive, a program where we put the world of motoring and transport under the microscope. I’m David Brown In this program we have news stories with David Campbell 1. Uber Air Launches in Australia (1:46) 2. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles puts brakes on proposed merger with Renault, blames French government (3:15) 3. German firm tests external airbag for side-impact crashes (3:48) 4. Volvo says it will tow broken-down cars for life (4:49) 5. It May Soon Be Illegal to Text While Crossing the Street in New York City (5:40) 6. Haval Strengthens Sino-Russian Economic Cooperation with Completion of Tula Factory (6:27) 7. Motoring Minute • Kia Picanto (7:10) 8. Preparing for a trip to the snow – Part 1 (8:21) 9. Texas Firm will build a Ferrari for you with a manual transmission (13:34) 10. Lancia Stratos (15:31) 11. Fined for crossing the road using your phone (17:33) 12. New camping thing (20:45) 13. Ian Callum (23:34) 14. PHEV (24:49) 15. Dean Oliver and Brian Smith take up the issue of designing transport infrastructure – should it be just functional or have an element of visual appeal (30:40) 16. Motoring Minute • The BMW Z4 (42:58) You can find more information at Driven Media or previous programs are available as podcasts on iTunes or Spotify. OR our Facebook site OverdriveCity So, let’s start with the news Originally broadcast 15 June 2019

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 (1:37) 2. Jaguar and Chargefox agreement sparks Australia’s EV interest (2:15) 3. Tesla reveals Model 3 Australian prices (3:07) 4. Pricing for Swedish mid-sized S60 sedan and V60 wagon well below Germans (4:48) 5. UTSA engineers develop inexpensive smart stop sign to improve rural road safety (5:58) 6. TU Graz developing ‘predictive’ pedestrian crossing signals for Vienna (7:10) 7. And Alan Zurvas has just witnessed a crash test. We find out what it was like and what is happening in the future (8:35) 8. Rob, Alan and David discuss some news snippets (16:28) 9. 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 (20:06) 10. Two motoring minutes • Jeep’s problems with brash tests (15:25) • VW Toureg (25:15) 11. Remembering Dorothy Rowe and a new program to use car clubs to help those with depression (26:38) 12. More discussion of motoring news (29:13) 13. Rob Roads tests the BMW Z4 (33:26) 14. Alan has been driving the Range Rover PHEV (38:55) 15. And some quirky news with Brian Smith (42:14)

The Thredbo conference is an international forum on passenger transport competition and ownership issues. It is held every two years. Professor David Hensher co-founded the conference with the first held in 1989, in Thredbo. But since then it has been held in locations around the world. It has some very rigorous papers, reporting on recent research and experience but ultimately it pushes towards real, practical solutions. The next conference will be held in Singapore in August this year 2019. The chairperson of one of the workshops titled "Beyond the fare box: sustainable funding of public transport by better understanding service values" is Professor Roger Vickerman. He's the emeritus professor of European economics at the University of Kent. I interviewed him recently from his Home in the UK. DB: Privatising services, does that cover most of your desired outcomes?. RV: I think we've seen very clearly over the years in many different countries that simply handing over the provision of important public services, which is what local public transport is, simply to private provider with the profit motive doesn't actually work. And it doesn't work particularly for those who are more disadvantaged in society, who are the ones who typically need to rely on public services. DB: How have other policy decisions worked against the transport disadvantaged? RV: At the same time as we've seen a removal of that backbone of public services from outer areas: closure of rural post offices; closure of local banks; so that people actually need to get into a town and then find that they don't have access to public transport to enable them to get there and back easily. Even though we might have us as a system that subsidizes public transport, for example for elderly people, through free bus passes not much point having a free bus pass if there isn't a bus to use it. DB: One strategy for raising funds other than through the fare box is based on land value. If businesses benefit from an improved transport network, then should they contribute to its construction? In Australia we call that value capture. Can this work? RV: We've seen an example with the development of the Crossrail project within Greater London which is not going terribly well at the at the end game. But we saw there the fact that they were using an additional charge on business rates for those areas that would benefit from this in order to be able to fund the scheme and indeed identify certain locations where there was a demand for a station on the line, which the overall project did not think was viable, to enable the private sector to do the development. DB: That is a case of getting money to build it in the first place or to operate it. If you go back to the late eighteen hundreds in England and the development of railway lines, there was a boom in railway construction based on land speculation and then many railways went broke because of ongoing operating costs. Are we talking about here ongoing funding or just getting over the first construction hurdle? RV: Well I think the first bit is actually making that that initial provision. Moving on from there to an ongoing support is of course much more difficult stage to get through with that. And that's where you might or might feel that some form of land value taxation that enables the local public authority to be able to provide that ongoing funding might be a good idea. But you are indeed right that most of those early speculators in the railways went bankrupt, which is probably true of most private transport investments. Good idea to enthuse the private sector to build things which then can't be taken away. And if they go bankrupt as a result of that, that seems to be hard luck and you can certainly see examples of that in terms of the private building of highways across Europe where private sector developers have essentially gone bankrupt as a result of having developed it and the state has had to step in.

Professor Graham Currie is the director of Monash infrastructure, Chair of public transport and Professor in Transport Engineering at Monash University. You can get a flavour of his passionate and realistic approach to transport in a paper he wrote recently titled "Lies, Damn Lies, Autonomous Vehicles, Shared Mobility and Urban Transport Futures". Introduction Academic or private research is sometimes seen only as the way to discover the next big thing; the next revolution; the next quantum leap in what we can do. And indeed, it can be. But to get public coverage and funding, be it from your own organisation government or private sources, it is often best achieved by proclaiming as early as possible, how great your breakthrough is and how profitable it will be. But a discovery is only the first step. To get good policy and implementation we need to have clarity of thought, a realistic perspective of what a new direction might lead to, and an understanding of the barriers and the concept of behaviour change. Professor Currie has been actively involved in original research and evaluation of transport systems in Australia and around the world. Selected Comments • “A lot of new developments are very speculative and although they get a lot of media coverage, I rather think that tinged with too much hype. Now hype is selling things that aren't real and you might think or does that really happen? Well there are many, many failures of new technology that is said to be the solution to all our wars. Like the monorail which haven't really revolutionized cities. • In regard to Autonomous cars: “The claim is that they're are going to solve traffic congestion, that they're going to be safer, that in fact a lot of US people have said that they're going to take over from public transport which is very old and decaying. Well you can take each one of these apart at the moment because there's no facts behind them”. • “Excellence in Engineering is integrating human science, human considerations, psychology into engineering and the discipline is improving. • “We are always seeking technical solutions that are the best but in practice the ones that get implemented are the ones that are politically acceptable and really that whole issue of local, state and federal politics is something that engineers don't really spend any time on. They really should. • On communication: “Unfortunately, in academia and engineering to an extent, there are plenty of technical disciplines like modelling, operations research, where there's far too many formulas that no one understands. In the end our job, I think, is to explain clearly, to an often-busy person like the CEO for example who often do want to get involved in the details the public and politicians. Those guys are very busy not technical experts. There's a real role for us all to tone down our work and come to the key points, to better communicate what we do, so that we can achieve change. • And services like Uber and Lyft? “I have a bigger concern over them and it comes again with these words we're using - these new words for new mobility. There's this word called “ride sharing” and Uber is very much part of the ride sharing philosophy and I don't like it because it's a lie. The average occupancy of an Uber in traffic is 0.6 passengers per vehicle. It's actually 1.6 but includes the driver. This implies that 34 percent of the time the vehicles are travelling around getting to places where they can pick people up or that they're looking for business. Now congested cities don't need empty cars of the road up trying to pick people up.