By Gary Biller, NMA President If I could travel back in time to change just one event to benefit motorists and highway safety, it would be 1974 to prevent the enactment of the 55 mph National Maximum Speed Limit (NMSL). While the United States still may not have attained the driving freedoms and safety of […]
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The Fortieth Anniversary of the NMSL: Reverberations from a Failed Federal Act
December 3, 2013 • 0 Comments • Fuel, Gary Biller, NMA, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, Traffic Congestion
The Bad News About Good Hybrids
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist I’m more than a little bit concerned the latest generation of plug-in hybrids (and all-electric cars) might actually work out. Because if they do, you can bet your bippie the government won’t let them get away with it. Paranoid?
Bad Times . . . Basic Bikes
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist If times get tough, getting around will likely become a major challenge. Gas may only be sporadically available — in addition to being unaffordable. Imagine, for instance, what might have happened had Dear Leader gone through with his 1939 Poland-style attack on Syria — and the cost of a gallon […]
Transmission Talk
By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist We don’t have “three on the tree” (column-shifted three-speed manual transmissions) anymore, but what we do have is a profusion of different transmission types — both manual and automatic — each doing things no old-stlye transmission could have dreamed of. It could use a little explaining.
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: September 18, 2013
September 18, 2013 • 0 Comments • Fuel, Gary Biller, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, TheNewspaper, Toll Roads, Traffic Tickets, Yellow Light Duration
Each Wednesday, we’ll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We’re doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Canada: Group Protests Missing Signs In Speed Camera Zones An activist group in Winnipeg, Canada […]
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