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EU regulations on right-hand drive cars are due to come into force from 2007. BMW have come up with a novel solution – cars with no steering wheels<\/a>.<\/div>\n

EU regulations on right-hand drive cars are due to come into force from 2007. BMW have come up with a novel solution – cars with no steering wheels.<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10963,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2024\/06\/18\/mapping-the-roads-building-modern-britain\/","url_meta":{"origin":105,"position":0},"title":"\ud83d\udcda Mapping the Roads: Building modern Britain","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"18 June 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve finished reading Mapping The Roads: Building modern Britain by Mike Parker. 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