Hyundai will soon be joining the likes of Ford and Fiat by offering a new music and information interface developed jointly with software giant Microsoft.

Cycling advocates are understandably up in arms over the state of safety for the average cyclist. As cars grow larger and heavier to satisfy governmental crash safety requirements, they become more hazardous to pedestrians and cyclists unless special steps are taken to lessen the risk of injury in the event of a collision. A Dutch cycling group is now pushing for just such an accommodation - airbags on the external surfaces of cars.

A new system, called Safety Center, has been developed that measures driver inputs and determines if they are driving too ‘aggressively’. The system, developed by US company GreenRoad Technologies, works by measuring g-forces acting on a car and compares them to pre-determined ’safe’ driving limits.