Speed limits are about to become limitless as in, whatever those who set them say they are. This has always been true, to an extent in that all speed limits are, to a degree, arbitrary. People are subject to a ticket, i.e., being extorted by armed government workers, acting on behalf of the government simply […]
10 Blog Posts From the NMSL Tag
Drive 55 Everywhere . . . Or Less
• April 23, 2021 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Eric Peters, FHWA, INSURANCE, Insurance Companies, MUTCD, NMA, NMSL, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Speed Limits, Technology, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, traffic safety, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO
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 […]
The Next Ten Years – Readers’ Edition, Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #523
January 21, 2019 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, ALPR, DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Vehicle, Fuel Tax, Infrastructure, INSURANCE, Motorcycle, NMA, NMSL, Red-Light Cameras, SAFETY, Scooters, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, Technology, Traffic Calming, Traffic Congestion, Traffic Tickets
In NMA E-Newsletter #520, The Next Ten Years, Jim Walker, Gary Biller, and Steve Carrellas provided their thoughts — limited by the NMA to less than 300 words — on the significant challenges that motorists and the NMA will face over the next decade. We asked readers to chime in with their thoughts and published […]
The 85th Call to Action (Time Sensitive): NMA E-Newsletter #517
December 10, 2018 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, FHWA, ITE, LETTER WRITING, NCUTCD, NMSL, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, VISION ZERO, VMT
The Fall 2018 issue of the NMA member magazine Driving Freedoms (“The Big Lie”) sounded a clarion call against the dismantling of established traffic engineering standards by the very agencies tasked with upholding those standards and protecting the public. Swept up in the Vision Zero dream of achieving zero road fatalities, the Federal Highway Administration […]
Welcome to Lane Courtesy Month 2018!
June 1, 2018 • 0 Comments • Fuel, Lane Courtesy, LETTER WRITING, NMA, NMSL, SAFETY, Speed Limits, Traffic Congestion
Do you practice lane courtesy every time you drive? The National Motorists Association uses the month of June as a platform to encourage all drivers to practice lane courtesy. The NMA strongly supports the simple but significant concept of slower traffic using the right lane and vehicles in the left lane yielding to faster traffic. […]
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