Sunday December 30, 2018. While most of us will be in the midst of holiday season preparations, for the NMA it will mark a momentous occasion for another reason. On that date─unless this notice just jinxed it─we will be publishing Issue #520, marking ten years of uninterrupted home delivery of weekly NMA e-newsletters. The range […]
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. […]
March 11, 2018 • ALASKA,
Digital Driver's License,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
IDAHO,
ILLINOIS,
Kentucky,
LOUISIANA,
MAINE,
MASSACHUSETTS,
MINNESOTA,
MISSOURI,
MONTANA,
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
NEW JERSEY,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NORTH DAKOTA,
OKLAHOMA,
OREGON,
PENNSYLVANIA,
Real ID,
RHODE ISLAND,
SOUTH CAROLINA,
VIRGINIA,
WASHINGTON,
WASHINGTON D.C. With the February 25, 2018 newsletter regarding the advent of digital driver’s licenses, it is an appropriate time to provide an update on the implementation of the REAL ID Act of 2005. Over the past 12 years, the NMA and other civil liberties organizations have lobbied against REAL ID which in effect would convert your […]
February 25, 2018 • COLORADO,
Digital Driver's License,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
IDAHO,
IOWA,
MARYLAND,
NEWSLETTER,
PRIVACY,
Technology,
TRAFFIC STOP,
WASHINGTON D.C.,
WYOMING Many states currently allow digital proof of insurance during a traffic stop. Will a digital driver’s license or DDL be too far behind? After several years of testing, the state of Iowa will debut later in 2018 a digital driver’s license in cooperation with “augmented identity” specialists IDEMIA, a company that works with about 80 […]
One of the most effective ways for a NMA member to go on the offensive is to issue a public records request. Governmental transparency is a wonderful concept but it remains just a concept unless the citizenry actively exercises the right to probe the policies and actions of public agencies. There are many reasons to […]
