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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Gary Fuller

SHOCKING: Exhaust pipe position affects how much air pollution we breathe research finds - You Need To See This

Fumes coming out of a car’s exhaust pipe.
The team say traffic pollution at the edge of UK roads could be cut by 21% if all diesel cars had exhaust pipes positioned near the centre of the road. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Some vehicles are much more polluting than others and the design of exhaust pipes could affect how much air pollution we breathe when we walk along a busy road, research has found.

Diesel vehicles still dominate exhaust pollution 10 years after the International Council on Clean Transportation revealed that many diesel cars were highly polluting, emitting far more nitrogen oxides on the road than in official testing.

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