March 24, 2019 • AUTO INDUSTRY,
BAC,
BLACK BOX,
BREATHALYZER,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
EDR,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
EVENT DATA RECORDER,
GPS,
IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
PRIVACY,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
TPMS,
VISION ZERO In three years, all new cars and light-trucks purchased in EU countries will be required to include standard price-increasing features that will change how motorists drive. Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection voted in February to approve a range of new vehicle safety standards initially proposed by the European […]
February 17, 2019 • ALPR,
AUTO INDUSTRY,
Digital Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
LICENSE PLATE,
MASS TRANSIT,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
PRIVACY,
RENTAL CAR,
SAFETY,
Technology,
TEXAS,
TOLLING From guest writer Joe Cadillic, of the MassPrivatel blog The die has been cast, whether it’s digital driver’s licenses, digital license plates, license plate readers or facial recognition cameras. Everyone from private corporations to law enforcement follows the same script; offer Americans customer loyalty rewards programs in exchange for the loss of their privacy. Surveillance […]
December 30, 2018 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
AUTO INDUSTRY,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Congestion Pricing,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
Insurance Company,
ITE,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NMA Foundation,
NSC,
NTSB,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
PRIVACY,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Ridesharing,
ROAD-USER FEES,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
Traffic Safety,
Traffic Tickets We wanted to do something special for Issue #520 because it marks ten years of uninterrupted weekly NMA e-newsletters that, we hope, have provided entertaining (if not thought-provoking) perspectives. To carry on that tradition, NMA and NMA Foundation directors were asked to provide mini essays for the occasion. No one likes homework but they tackled […]
April 1, 2018 • ARIZONA,
AUTO INDUSTRY,
CALIFORNIA,
CELL PHONE,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
HAWAII,
IDAHO,
New York City,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
SAFETY,
Technology,
TEXTING,
WASHINGTON Have we become a nation of cellphone zombies? Many experts believe that the increase in distracted driving, in particular using a cellphone to text while driving, has been a big factor in the increase of traffic fatalities since 2009. Another factor apparently is distracted walking. Pedestrian deaths account for 16 percent of all traffic fatalities. […]
As sunroofs become more popular with new car buyers, questions abound whether they are safe or not. In October 2017, Consumer Reports (CR) came out with a scathing study on sunroofs that seem to shatter for no reason. Over the past 22 years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had received 859 complaints of […]
