December 22, 2019 • DADSS,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PRIVACY,
Road Safety,
Technology It’s been seven years since we wrote about the Driver Alcohol Detection System and Safety (DADSS) program–A Frog in the Pot, E-newsletter #187–and efforts to make ignition interlock devices standard equipment in all vehicles. Proponents of forcing all drivers to pass alcohol detection testing before being able to operate their cars are nothing if not […]
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 […]
A member from North Carolina recently was convicted of a DUI. His story is all too familiar: A 40-year safe driving record with no tickets, lost his job because of the DUI, dealing with the cost/hassle of an ignition interlock on his car, restricted to work-related driving and, after losing auto insurance coverage, forced into a […]
March 5, 2017 • ACLU,
ALASKA,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE,
INSURANCE,
IOWA,
MADD,
MONTANA,
NEWSLETTER,
NORTH DAKOTA,
SOUTH DAKOTA,
WYOMING Iowa lawmakers introduced two bills last month that would require motorists who are arrested or convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) to undergo a twice-daily in-person sobriety testing. Those who pass can go about their day. Those who don’t go straight to jail. The proposed 24/7 sobriety bills are aimed at repeat […]
February 26, 2017 • ALPR,
CELL PHONE,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
GPS TRACKING,
IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE,
MINNESOTA,
NEWSLETTER,
PRIVACY If you are one of 11,000 convicted drunk drivers in Minnesota, your car whereabouts are currently known through GPS tracking. Apparently, Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials had implemented a GPS location-tracking for interlock ignition systems without the backing of the state legislature. Representative Peggy Scott (R-Andover) says that when the legislature passed the interlock […]
