The April 15-16, 2019 conference in Ruckersville, Virginia was billed as a “national forum [seeking] to address the neglected problem of speeding.” The sponsoring organizations, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), are leading proponents of lowering speed limits with the goal of reducing highway fatalities to near […]
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A Forum About Modifying Speed Limits and Driver Behavior: NMA E-Newsletter #537
April 29, 2019 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, Automated Traffic Enforcement, FHWA, GHSA, IIHS, NMA, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET QUOTA, Traffic Tickets
The IIHS: When a New Study is Not New and Not a Study—NMA E-Newsletter #535
April 15, 2019 • 0 Comments • FARS, IIHS, INSURANCE, Insurance Companies, NHTSA, NMSL, Speed Limits, Traffic Tickets
By Gary Biller, NMA President Every two or three years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) splashes the media with a recycled report of how many deaths have occurred due to raised speed limits. And reporters dutifully echo it as gospel because sensational headlines like, “Speed limit increases are tied to 37,000 deaths over […]
Boston’s “Vision Zero” Exposed: Lowering the speed limit increases speeding ticket revenue by 47%: NMA E-Newsletter #506
September 24, 2018 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, Facial Recognition, IIHS, Insurance Companies, NHTSA, NMA, NMA Foundation, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET REVENUE, VISION ZERO
From guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog All across the country, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is hard at work convincing cities to lower their speed limits to 25 MPH. The national effort to lower speed limits in cities is a fundamental tenet of a movement known as “Vision Zero.” To date, the National Highway […]
Where’s the Media Skepticism on Automated Traffic Enforcement?
August 17, 2018 • 0 Comments • IIHS, NMA, NMA Foundation, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET REVENUE
Editor’s Note: The media has become lazy when it comes to motorists’ rights issues. Here is a piece from September 2015 that examines why and how one reporter dug deeper. Hopefully, this will inspire current and future journalists to not take everything you read at face value but dig deeper. Where’s the Skepticism? NMA E-Newsletter #349 […]
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