By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Is 16 too young to drive? If you’re 16. you probably think not. But it’s those over 16 — adults like the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Adrian Lund — who will get to be the deciders on this one. Lund and some others want to push the age at […]
How To Objectively Identify Unsafe Drivers
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist For years I have been arguing that the most objective — and perhaps, definitive — measure of a driver’s ability to drive safely is whether he or she has been involved in an at-fault accident. Speeding tickets, for example, don’t really tell us whether a person is a safe/competent driver. […]
Short Red-Light Camera Grace Period Leads To Ticket Refunds
Last week, Daniel Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer publicized the story of a local driver who was unjustly ticketed: Mike Kochkodin didn’t think his car blew the traffic signal on Roosevelt Boulevard. But a few days after the white light flashed, a $100 ticket arrived by mail at his Central Pennsylvania home. […] When the […]
Why Does Car Insurance Cost So Much?
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Ever wonder why car insurance premiums are so high? Even if you’ve got a clean driving record — no accidents, few tickets — it’s not uncommon to be shelling out close to $1,000 annually to cover the nut for a full coverage policy on a late model car. Over the […]
Lost Mobility — Lost Freedom
By James Baxter, NMA Founder Two Wall Street Journal articles over the past week brought home how much our freedom to travel has been diminished in the pursuit of absolute security. First was an editorial by Peggy Noonan that clearly described the degrading, inconvenient, and humiliating experience called “commercial air travel.” She provides a crystal […]
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