We dedicated the Spring 2016 issue of Driving Freedoms to the exploration of various aspects of the technological march toward driverless, interconnected vehicles. There are some distinct safety benefits to be realized through automation and connectivity – intersection movement assist for instance – but there are also very real concerns. There are five classifications of […]
By Gary Biller, NMA President My indoctrination to NMA affairs was immediate when I joined the organization in July 2009. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, that bastion of the auto insurance industry, had just released a report titled, Long Term Effects of Repealing the National Maximum Speed Limit (NMSL) in the United States. The […]
April 24, 2016 • ALPR,
Biometrics,
CELL PHONE,
DNA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
NEWSLETTER,
PPP,
PRIVACY,
Public Private Partnership,
SOCIAL NETWORKING,
Technology,
TEXTING By John W. Whitehead, President, The Rutherford Institute Government eyes are watching you. They see your every move: what you read, how much you spend, where you go, with whom you interact, when you wake up in the morning, what you’re watching on television and reading on the internet. Every move you make is being […]
April 17, 2016 • ALPR,
BAC,
BREATHALYZER,
CALIFORNIA,
CELL PHONE,
COLORADO,
Driver's License,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
LICENSE,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
Technology,
TEXAS,
TRAFFIC STOP,
WASHINGTON The California Senate recently took up a bill that would let police officers use oral fluid drug screening tests to check motorists for the presence of drugs in their systems. The proposed test is administered with a handheld device that uses an oral swab to check for the presence of a variety of controlled substances […]
April 10, 2016 • CONNECTICUT,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
INDIANA,
LEGISLATION,
MISSOURI,
NEWSLETTER,
NORTH CAROLINA,
PETITION,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RHODE ISLAND,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
TOLLING,
VIRGINIA,
WISCONSIN,
WYOMING After nearly two decades of action at the federal level, the battle to toll existing interstates is now shifting to the states, thanks to the federal transportation bill passed last fall. That bill, called the FAST Act, made changes to a federal program known as the Interstate System Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program (ISRRPP). This […]
