September 23, 2018 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
IIHS,
Insurance Company,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NMA Foundation,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RHODE ISLAND,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET REVENUE,
VISION ZERO From guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog All across the country, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is hard at work convincing cities to lower their speed limits to 25 MPH. The national effort to lower speed limits in cities is a fundamental tenet of a movement known as “Vision Zero.” To date, the National Highway […]
July 15, 2018 • CROSSWALK,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MASS TRANSIT,
New York City,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
PEDESTRIAN,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
TRAFFIC SIGNAL,
VISION ZERO by Gary Biller, NMA President One valuable piece of analytical advice that has stuck with me in the many ─ too many ─ years since attending engineering school and participating in the requisite lab experiments is “let the data lead you to a proper solution.” With that thought in mind, let’s look at the following […]
July 8, 2018 • ALPR,
Automatic Traffic Enforcement,
Corruption,
Drone,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
Insurance Company,
LICENSE PLATES,
MARYLAND,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
Red-Light Camera,
SAFETY,
SCHOOL BUS,
SCHOOL BUS CAMERA,
SPEED CAMERA,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET REVENUE,
YELLOW LIGHT TIMING As we continue the march toward the publication of the 520th consecutive weekly issue of the NMA e-newsletter later this year, we will on occasion highlight reader favorites over these past ten years. The first installment, NMA E-Newsletter #486, focused on discussions of speed limits. Here we take on the second-most covered newsletter topic through […]
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. […]
