By Ben Whitley, personal injury lawyer of Whitley Law Firm. A texting-while-driving law has been on the books in North Carolina for several years but police claim it is completely unenforceable. The reason—if you are over the age of 18, you can still hold a phone while driving. Police officers have no way of knowing […]
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Universal Road User Charges Really? Many Questions that need Answers by the Rest of Us
July 26, 2019 • 0 Comments • ALPR, Bicycle, CELL PHONE, Congestion Pricing, E-Scooters, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, GPS, Motorcycle, NMA, PRIVACY, Road Rage, Road User Charge, Technology, Toll Roads
Editor’s Note: One of our Texas members wrote the following guest post as a response to this past week’s first part of the NMA three-part newsletter called: Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge. Parts two and three will be on the website www.motorists.org on July 28 and August 4, respectively. […]
Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge? Part 1—the National Landscape: NMA E-Newsletter #549
July 22, 2019 • 0 Comments • ALPR, Electric Vehicle, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, GPS, GPS TRACKING, Infrastructure, LEGISLATION, PPP, Public Private Partnership, Road Usage Charge, Technology, TOLL ROAD, VMT, VMT Tax
A road user charge or RUC (also referred to as the Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax or VMT Tax and Mileage Based User Fees or MBUF) currently permeates nearly every discussion of how our country will pay for infrastructure in the future. Many transportation planners and elected officials seem to agree the time has come to […]
The Evolution of Car Infotainment Systems (Infographic)
Discover how in-car infotainment systems have evolved over the decades and see what infotainment might look like in the future. What is an Infotainment System? A car infotainment system makes use of hardware and software technology to deliver entertainment and information to the vehicle occupants. They typically comprise audio and video interfaces, touchscreens and keypads. […]
Where’s Our Cut from Data Mining of our Cars?
• July 7, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Auto Industry, CELL PHONE, Eric Peters, EVENT DATA RECORDER, Fuel, GPS, GPS TRACKING, Insurance Companies, PRIVACY, Technology, VMT
You’ve probably seen people driving around in cars covered over or “wrapped” with advertisements for some service or product and wondered how much the owner got paid to allow his car to be transformed into a mobile billboard. But he is at least getting paid. The non-wrapped cars are working, too but their owners aren’t being […]
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