One way to avoid having Big Brother riding shotgun is to buy a ride built before Big Brother came with the car or the truck. It has been legal since the dawn of the automobile age to buy a vehicle made before the advent of air bags, back-up cameras, driver “assistance” technology and all the rest of it—and […]
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ATE Racket Report for November 11, 2019
November 11, 2019 • 0 Comments • ACLU, Automated Traffic Cameras, Automated Traffic Enforcement, BODY CAMERAS, DUE PROCESS, Facial Recognition, LEGISLATION, license plate readers, NMA, PRIVACY, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, School Bus Cameras, Speed Cameras, Technology, TICKET FINES, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Tickets
Curated by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director The ATE Racket Report is a weekly feature of the NMA blog. We want to bring the issues of automated traffic enforcement to our supporters in a more coherent up-to-date fashion. We love to hear from you about the report. Please feel free to comment below the […]
Driving in America: Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates Update
November 8, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATFI, Congestion Pricing, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, LEGISLATION, NMA, REVENUE GENERATION, Technology, TOLL, TOLL ROAD, TOLLING, Traffic Congestion, VMT
Editor’s Note: The National Motorists Association and the Alliance for Toll-free Interstates or ATFI are in agreement about tolls. ATFI recently emailed this newsletter out to supporters, outlining the latest tolling in America news from the summer and fall of 2019. The NMA has permission to repost its email newsletter in the Driving in America […]
Transportation Engineers Debate Vision Zero, Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #564
November 4, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Congestion Pricing, ITE, LEGISLATION, Mass Transit, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, SAFETY, Scooters, TOLL, VISION ZERO
Last week in Part 1, we shared some posts made on the Institute of Transportation Engineers Member Forum that started a debate about the efficacy of the Vision Zero goals. The discussion in that thread — “A ‘War on Cars’? Let there be Peace!” — was too varied and interesting to fit into the contents […]
The Split-Speed Limit Effect: That “Oh Crap” Look on Drivers’ Faces
November 1, 2019 • 0 Comments • LEGISLATION, NMA, OOIDA, SAFETY, Speed Limiters, Speed Limits, Traffic Congestion
Written by Gary Biller, NMA President This post originally appeared in July 2019 as NMA Weekly Newsletter #548. Split speed limits, where certain commercial vehicles such as large trucks are forced to travel at lower speeds than surrounding traffic, are anathema to truckers and car drivers alike. That is why the NMA and the Owner-Operator […]
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