Changes trigger delay of an ordinance to govern the use of surveillance technology in San Diego

Up to Speed: Florida DOT studies traffic relief along I-4 between Tampa and Orlando

Chicago Aldermen defy Mayor Lori Lightfoot, advance plan to raise threshold for speed camera tickets back to 10 mph

Louisville Metro Council passes Vision Zero initiative

Schenectady, NY eyes 25 mph speed limit

Indiana gas tax increases while state eyes inflation relief

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On the Driving in America blog this week, we revisit a counterpoint to last week’s blog on should 18-year-olds drive Big Rigs. This one is written by a former trucker who is also an NMA member from Arkansas. Thomas Beckett has plenty to say in this perspective piece that originally graced our website as a newsletter in April. NMA Blogger Eric Peters also has yet another perspective on the viability of electric vehicles.

Peters also reviews this week the 2022 Fiat 500X.

On The Car Coach Vlog, Lauren Fix asks and answers the question, Is the Gas Tax Holiday a Gimmick?

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Stop Telling Me I Don’t Need a Pickup Truck (Road and Track)

Who Owns Which Car Brands? (Consumer Reports)

90 Years of the ’32 Ford Celebrated at the Petersen Automotive Museum (MotorTrend)

Mercedes is Probably Killing its Last Affordable Models For Good (Jalopnik)

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The Automobile Won

Last month, anti-automobile activists led by the Congress for the New Urbanism announced the formation of a national Freeway Fighters Network. The network opposes new freeways and freeway expansions and wants to shift freeway money to other forms of transportation. Among other things, they object to new freeway capacity because it induces more highway travel.

I have a message for these anti-auto activists: The war on the automobile is over. The automobile won. More accurately, auto drivers and users won. It is time for those engaged in this war to stop wasting their time, and everyone else’s, and start doing something productive. People concerned about the impacts of the automobile should give up trying to reduce driving, which has never worked, and instead encourage new automobiles and highways that are safer, cleaner, and more energy efficient…

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