April 14, 2013 • ALPR,
CALIFORNIA,
COLORADO,
CONNECTICUT,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
INDIANA,
LEGISLATION,
MARYLAND,
MASSACHUSETTS,
MINNESOTA,
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
NEWSLETTER,
PENNSYLVANIA,
RADAR,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED,
RTOR,
SHORT YELLOW LIGHT,
SOUTH DAKOTA,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
TEXTING,
TICKET FINES,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
TRAFFIC RECORD,
VIRGINIA,
YELLOW LIGHT,
YELLOW LIGHT TIMING,
YELLOW LIGHTS The NMA continues to advocate for motorists’ rights at the national, state and local level. Legislatures across the country took up a broad range of motorists’ issues in the first quarter of 2013. Here’s a brief summary of the driving-related issu…
March 17, 2013 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LANE COURTESY,
MARYLAND,
NATIONAL,
NATIONWIDE,
NEWSLETTER,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEEDING,
TICKET FINES,
WASHINGTON Although all states have various forms of the “keep right unless passing” (aka “lane courtesy”) requirement in their statutes, it is rare to hear about the police actually enforcing the law against a driver who camps out in the left lane. …
March 10, 2013 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
INSURANCE,
NATIONAL,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED,
RTOR,
SAFETY,
SHORT YELLOW LIGHT,
SPEED LIMIT,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
YELLOW LIGHT,
YELLOW LIGHT TIMING,
YELLOW LIGHTS The NMA staff spends a lot of time responding to media requests. Everyone from local radio reporters to network news correspondents contact us looking for quotes, comments or background information on a variety of driving-related stories. Recently…
Here are a few choice excerpts from an article titled “How Fast is TOO Fast?” that was published in Popular Mechanics. Most of the conclusions were drawn by the Stanford Research Institute, “one of America’s most respected scientific centers” and …
Executive Director of the NMA Foundation Jim Walker recently sent us an interesting document chock full of common-sense information on speed zoning. Jim described it as “one of the clearest manuals about how to set proper speed limits. If this man…
