May 7, 2017 • CELL PHONE,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
ILLINOIS,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
PRIVACY,
RADAR DETECTOR,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
Technology,
TENNESSEE,
TEXTING,
TICKET REVENUE,
VIRGINIA Part 1 dealt with how distracted driving enforcement campaigns, fueled by federal highway money, are also dragnets for other offenses. Part 2 examines new law enforcement tools to check on texting while driving. Currently, law enforcement has great difficulty in determining if a driver was using electronic devices before a crash (and more importantly whether […]
April 23, 2017 • BLACK BOX,
CELL PHONE,
DUI,
EDR,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
FOURTH AMENDMENT,
INSURANCE,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
PRIVACY,
SAFETY,
Technology Earlier this month, the Florida Appeals Court in a 2-1 decision found in the 2013 Palm Beach County DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide case involving Charles Worsham Jr that the Fourth Amendment affords an expectation of privacy for vehicle electronic data recorders (EDRs), aka black boxes. Similar to an airplane black box, a vehicle’s EDR […]
The Federal Trade Commission has started an investigation into the practice of auto lenders equipping new vehicles with GPS and other devices. A payment assurance device attached to a vehicle’s ignition allows finance companies to remotely and instantly disable the vehicle and prevent it from being driven. If a car goes missing, lenders can use […]
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 […]
Earlier this month, the National Safety Council and the Traffic Injury Research Foundation outlined additional guidelines to the already implemented Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) Program that has already been implemented in many states. This newest set of guidelines seem more like punishment than an actual gateway to adulthood. For example, all new drivers 21 and […]
