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 30, 2017 • CELL PHONE,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DRIVER EDUCATION,
Driver's License,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
MINNESOTA,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
SAFETY,
TEXTING Distracted driving of any kind can be instantly dangerous. Each April the federal and state governments conduct a public awareness campaign on the dangers of distracted driving that bombards motorists with media messages which leads to increased command-and-control enforcement. There can be many different distractions for drivers but among the most controversial is the use […]
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 […]
Activist groups waging war on urban auto use under the guise of pedestrian and bicyclist advocacy have found a new hook for their campaign: the “level of service” measure used by traffic planners to describe how efficiently a road works. Traffic engineers use manuals to compare the hourly volume on a road or through an […]
April 9, 2017 • civil asset forfeiture,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
CRIMINAL,
Driver's License,
DUE PROCESS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
INSURANCE,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED TRAP,
TICKET REVENUE 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. Sadly, what you write rings true. My old home town, Cambridge, NY, has for years supported an aggressive policing for profit operation on NY route 22. They have a […]
