September 5, 2021 • Driver Courtesy,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LANE COURTESY,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
Parking,
Road Rage,
SAFETY,
TEXTING,
ZIPPER MERGE Welcome to Driver Courtesy Month! This month-long educational program promotes the idea that we should all be courteous drivers. We can all pursue the Golden Rule of Driving—drive like you want others to drive. Along with the NMA’s largest media campaign in recent years, we are supporting Driver Courtesy Month with information on the NMA’s […]
August 19, 2018 • ARIZONA,
ARKANSAS,
CALIFORNIA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LETTER WRITING,
MISSOURI,
MONTANA,
NEW JERSEY,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
OKLAHOMA,
PENNSYLVANIA,
VIRGINIA,
WASHINGTON,
ZIPPER MERGE The National Motorists Association received some thoughtful comments from readers like you and thought we should share them. If you missed reading Part 1, click HERE. I’m glad one more place seems to have figured this out. Many other places have not. People get the idea that others who are using an open lane to a […]
From Montana Member Bob Morrow The most controversial, or more accurately the least understood, highway driving maneuver sanctioned by transportation experts is the zipper merge. It is a method of combining two streams of traffic into one when there is a lane restriction ahead, such as in a construction zone. Invariably some drivers think that […]
July 22, 2018 • CONNECTICUT,
DRIVER EDUCATION,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LANE COURTESY,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
RHODE ISLAND,
ROUNDABOUT,
TEXAS,
VIRGINIA,
ZIPPER MERGE By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Our son will soon turn 16 and he has no interest in learning how to drive yet. I’m relieved. I don’t want to teach him how to drive especially since I drive a stick shift. It doesn’t help that I’m not really the best role model of driving. I’m […]
When promoting the virtues of lane courtesy, the NMA will often get feedback from readers suggesting – some more forcefully than others – that the proper terminology should be ‘lane discipline’ or ‘keep right except to pass.’ Both of those phrases have specific and important meanings, but neither does justice to the spirit of cooperation […]
