From guest writer Eric Berg. Eric Berg is an NMA director and life member since the Citizens Coalition for Rational Traffic Law days. Eric is an avid sport bicyclist as well as staunch defender of motorists’ rights. He is well positioned to provide observations from both vantage points. One of the challenges for NMA advocacy […]
January 20, 2019 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
ALPR,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
infrastructure,
INSURANCE,
Motorcycle,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NMSL,
Red-Light Camera,
SAFETY,
Scooter,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
TRAFFIC CALMING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
Traffic Tickets In NMA E-Newsletter #520, The Next Ten Years, Jim Walker, Gary Biller, and Steve Carrellas provided their thoughts — limited by the NMA to less than 300 words — on the significant challenges that motorists and the NMA will face over the next decade. We asked readers to chime in with their thoughts and published […]
January 13, 2019 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
infrastructure,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
NMA Foundation,
PRIVACY,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology When we published E-Newsletter #520, The Next Ten Years, on December 30, 2018 with predictions from some NMA and NMA Foundation directors of the challenges that the NMA and motoring public are going to face over the next decade, we encouraged readers to provide their insights. And boy, have you. We currently have enough material […]
January 6, 2019 • Congestion Tolling,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
HIGH OCCUPANCY,
NEWSLETTER,
REVENUE GENERATION,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
TOLLING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
VIRGINIA “This article originally appeared on TheNewspaper.com, (“Driving Politics”) and is reprinted with their kind permission.” Federally funded report explores the possibility of turning every mile of interstate highway into a toll road. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on Thursday released a report saying motorists ought to pay up to $70 billion in higher […]
December 30, 2018 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
AUTO INDUSTRY,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Congestion Pricing,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FHWA,
Insurance Company,
ITE,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NMA Foundation,
NSC,
NTSB,
POLICING FOR PROFIT,
PRIVACY,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Ridesharing,
ROAD-USER FEES,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
Technology,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
Traffic Safety,
Traffic Tickets We wanted to do something special for Issue #520 because it marks ten years of uninterrupted weekly NMA e-newsletters that, we hope, have provided entertaining (if not thought-provoking) perspectives. To carry on that tradition, NMA and NMA Foundation directors were asked to provide mini essays for the occasion. No one likes homework but they tackled […]
