The solar tuk tuk developed by students at Melbourne’s RMIT visited the northern NSW town of Byron Bay this week, after a two week long trek up the east coast on a mission to spread the message of clean transport.

As The Driven reported last month, the vehicle is a retro-fitted tuk tuk (the dirty, noisy, petrol-driven, two-stroke kind commonly seen on South East Asian city streets) has been developed by a team of students from the engineering and other faculties at the Melbourne university as part of a project to promote sustainable transport.

A few of the students began what will eventually be a 3,000km journey on November 24, 2018, and to date have travelled over 1,600km as part of the mission including up to Mt Kosciuszko, the highestFormer CIA Director John Brennan, noting that President Donald Trump has escalated tensions with North Korea to a dangerous level, said Thursday that Cabinet members and other senior officials may need to step in as "governors" over the president to prevent war.

Speaking on NBC's "TODAY" show, Brennan said that while Trump was "trying to demonstrate he’s tough" with hostile rhetoric aimed at North Korea, he lacks experience with "international brinkmanship," and that could put top officials — like Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Chief of Staff John Kelly and Marine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — in the position of having to talk the commander in chief out of military conflict.

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