By NMA Member Dan Hyatt No one likes to think of prepping before a disaster but it’s always best to be ready just in case. The recent Hurricane Ian that hit Florida in September reminded me that we all need to be ready just in case. Disaster prepping is a mindset and should be done […]
Recent Chicago Parking Audit Spells Bad News for Motorists (and Every Other Resident)
November 18, 2022 • 0 Comments • Automated Traffic Enforcement, Parking, Parking Meters, PPP, Public Private Partnership, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, Speed Cameras, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, TICKET REVENUE, TOLL ROAD, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #708 from August 2022. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, a weekly one-topic look at a motorist issue, click here. As of 2022, 61 years are left on the 75-year parking meter lease now held by the Chicago Parking Meters […]
The Yoke’s On You: Drive-by-Wire Steering
• November 15, 2022 • 0 Comments • connected cars, Electric Vehicle, Eric Peters, SPEED LIMIT, Technology
Do you like the idea of there being no physical connection between your steering wheel and the driving wheels? There’s already no physical connection between the gas pedal and throttle in most new cars. When you depress the gas pedal, the degree of depression is registered by sensors, which send data to the computer that controls […]
Is it Time to “Sound Off” about the Use of Lights and Sirens?
By Stewart Price, NMA Program Officer This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #707 from July 2022. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, a weekly one-topic look at a motorist issue, click here. All of us are gradually going deaf. The world is getting louder save for the isolationists that have gone off […]
Semantics: 4WD is not AWD
When language is misused, people tend to get confused and misled. One example of this is the way “4WD” is now being regularly used to describe that which isn’t. Or rather, wasn’t historically speaking. Before the rise of the Universal Transportation Appliance or UTA, the car-based crossover “SUV” (in air fingers quotes because that’s another example […]
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