May 12, 2019 • civil asset forfeiture,
Driver's License,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
ILLINOIS,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
Predatory Towing,
PUBLIC RECORDS,
REVENUE GENERATION,
TICKET FINES,
TOWING,
Traffic Tickets Cities tow cars for many reasons. They are often towed when doubled parked or left in front of a fire hydrant. If there are too many parking tickets, cities will often boot first, and if the driver does not pay the tickets in a certain amount of time, the boot comes off, and the vehicle […]
March 31, 2019 • ALPR,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Driver's License,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GEORGIA,
LANE COURTESY,
LEGISLATION,
MARYLAND,
MISSISSIPPI,
NEW JERSEY,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NORTH DAKOTA,
RADAR,
RADAR DETECTOR,
ROADBLOCK,
SCHOOL BUS,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET FINES,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
TRAFFIC SIGNAL,
UTAH,
VIRGINIA,
WEST VIRGINIA Today we complete the first full calendar quarter of reporting motorist-related activity that is passing through state and federal legislatures. The NMA Bill/Regulation Tracker (Bill Tracker) was introduced in the Winter 2019 issue of Driving Freedoms and went live on Motorists.org in early January when most states began new legislative sessions. Only three months in […]
January 13, 2019 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
infrastructure,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NMA Foundation,
PRIVACY,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology When we published E-Newsletter #520, The Next Ten Years, on December 30, 2018 with predictions from some NMA and NMA Foundation directors of the challenges that the NMA and motoring public are going to face over the next decade, we encouraged readers to provide their insights. And boy, have you. We currently have enough material […]
December 23, 2018 • BAC,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
Driver's License,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FIFTH AMENDMENT,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
INSURANCE,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT This is a story about my twenty-year-old son. To some readers this may be an article that smacks of stupidity and privilege. It may be that both are true but the real point is how hopelessly out of whack law enforcement and related penalties are with the real world. On a Saturday night John exited […]
Randy LoBasso, policy manager at the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, loves to hate the National Motorists Association. We are often the bogeyman he uses as a counterpoint to his pro-bicyclist, Vision Zero, anti-car rhetoric. For instance: “Let’s understand what the National Motorists Association is: An extremist fringe group that thrives on emotional explanations to […]
