It’s no secret that car accident rates and fatalities still plague the United States. In fact, motor vehicle crashes are currently the leading cause of death for U.S. teens. What are we doing wrong on the road? The problem may lie, not in our skills themselves, but in our arrogance regarding them. According to a […]
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Teaching Kids to Interact with Police—will it help?: NMA E-Newsletter #459
Illinois, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia have passed legislation that mandates schools teach students how to conduct themselves around police. Texas passed its law in the last legislative session and mandated that high schools and especially driver’s education courses train students how to conduct themselves around law enforcement. Texas also passed a law to […]
NTSB Wants to Turn Our Highways into a For-Profit Police State
• August 2, 2017 • 0 Comments • DRIVER EDUCATION, Gary Biller, NHTSA, NMA, NTSB, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, TheNewspaper, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
Why does the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) want to change its goal of providing legitimate highway safety research into an advocacy of ever-present, for-profit enforcement aimed primarily at safe drivers who are endangering no one? In a sweeping set of recommendations from its July 25, 2017 public meeting, the NTSB threw down a draconian […]
Putting Courtesy Back into Driving
When promoting the virtues of lane courtesy, the NMA will often get feedback from readers suggesting – some more forcefully than others – that the proper terminology should be ‘lane discipline’ or ‘keep right except to pass.’ Both of those phrases have specific and important meanings, but neither does justice to the spirit of cooperation […]
Lane Courtesy or Law–A California Cultural Examination
• June 14, 2017 • 0 Comments • DRIVER EDUCATION, Driver's License, Lane Courtesy, NMA, ROUNDABOUT, Speed Limits
from Norman Risch, NMA California Member While the NMA has been increasingly promoting left lane courtesy for years, I can compare several states in which I have lived or worked. California is far worse than Maryland, DC, or Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and most other Eastern states in left and right lane courtesy (not that any […]
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