Unleaded Petrol Prices: Today’s Cheapest Fuel

Car Hire Insider — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:40:05 +0000

Below you’ll find today’s best currently available Unleaded Petrol prices within Australia’s major cities, compiled for your convenience.

Click on any of the cities’ badges to display the exact addresses of the petrol stations offering the low prices
Use Google Maps to navigate your way to your chosen station
And save!

Unleaded fuel price data below is manually collected and updated twice daily in the morning and afternoon on Mondays to Saturdays, and once daily on Sundays.

Sydney

Melbourne

Brisbane

Gold Coast

Perth

Adelaide

Hobart

For specific suburb search and prices of other types of fuel, use MotorMouth’s Price Search.

Google Maps Live Traffic Updates

Car Hire Insider — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:30:09 +0000

Google Maps’ live traffic updates for Australia is yet another nifty new feature to make all our lives simply too easy. Indeed, now we can plan ahead and make smarter driving decisions. As Murphy’s Law would have it, how many times have we picked a time or route to drive someplace, only to be realize too late that it was precisely what we shouldn’t have done? No longer. Clicking on Google Maps’ Traffic view, this latest technology will display colour-coded lines overlaid over the existing Google Map roads to indicate the flow of traffic. Updated every few minutes, a quick check on your mobile phone and you’ll be able to pick the fastest way home (or to the pub):

Google Maps: Traffic in Sydney during a Tuesday 6pm rush hour

Green – Free sailing
Yellow – Medium congestion
Red – Heavy congestion
Black – Parking lot

Data is collected from motorists with Google Maps for mobile running and with the GPS and “My Location” feature turned on. Google can then use that information (anonymously) to calculate the speed of the devices’ movements and presto, live traffic information at your fingertips. And if being able to check current traffic conditions isn’t good enough, you can specify a chosen day and time of the week. This estimation is based on past information and we can only presume as they amass more data over time, this prediction may even have a good degree of reliability to it.

It is currently rolled out only in selected areas (we’ve included the links to the major cities below) but hopefully in the not too distant future and if it works as well as they intend it to, all of Australia will be enjoying some smoother driving.

Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Wollongong
NSW Central Coast
Sunshine Coast
Gold Coast
Geelong