Regular maintenance is essential. Driving habits are important, but the most crucial thing if you want your car to last a long time is keeping it garaged when you’re not driving it. Why? First of all, because it’s dry in there as opposed to wet outside. All cars get wet sometimes unless you never drive them when it rains. […]
The Effort to Dictate How We Live
November 12, 2021 • 0 Comments • Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, Technology, VISION ZERO
By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as an NMA Weekly E-Newsletter in August 2021. If you would like to receive the one-topic newsletter every Sunday, subscribe HERE. While we have warned about the Vision Zero and Complete Streets mission to force people out of their cars in many previous writings, […]
Why Fight a Traffic Ticket?
• November 9, 2021 • 0 Comments • Driver's License, Insurance Companies, NHTSA, NMA, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, TICKET FIGHTING, Ticket Quotas, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Tickets
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the NMA Blog in March 2018. Did you ever feel that you were already considered guilty when you received a traffic ticket even though, under the US Constitution, you are innocent until proven guilty? This includes any kind of traffic ticket coming from either a law enforcement officer […]
Cars to be Equipped with “In-Air” Alcohol Detection Systems that Test the Breath of Everyone
November 5, 2021 • 0 Comments • ACTS, Auto Industry, BAC, Breathalyzers, DADDS, IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE, Insurance Companies, NHTSA, PRIVACY, Public Private Partnership, SAFETY, Technology
By Joe Cadillic, founder of the MassPrivatel Blog Big Brother will soon be able to stop a person from driving their car if it detects any alcohol in their breath. The Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety, Inc.(ACTS) and the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS) program have created an open source “in-air” alcohol detection system for […]
Red-Light Cameras Do Not Reduce Right-Angle Crashes
November 2, 2021 • 0 Comments • IIHS, Red-Light Cameras, SHORT YELLOW LIGHT, TICKET CAMERA, YELLOW LIGHT, Yellow Light Duration, YELLOW LIGHT TIMING
By Jim Baxter, Founder of the National Motorists Association Editor’s Note: This post first appeared in 2008 but is still quite relevant today. Since then, Case Western University researchers in 2017 found that RLCs do not make intersections safer and, when finally turned off due to community pressure, the intersection is actually safer than before. […]
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