When you think about technology in your car, you probably think about your infotainment system, the car’s stereo, and maybe the navigation system. But there are actually quite a few new technologies that you can use while you’re driving to make spending time on the road safer. Everything from modern camera systems integrated into the […]
486 Blog Posts From the Speed Limits Tag
4 Technologies That Support Safe Driving
• May 19, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, ESC, GPS, GPS TRACKING, SAFETY, Speed Limits, Technology, TEXTING
A Reflection on 5.5 Million Miles of Driving
By NMA Alaska Member Merrill Gehman When we were young, we learned many things about driving from those that we saw driving. We learned from an early age, who can drive and who can’t. We started driving farm equipment as kids and graduated to cars and trucks later. Driving was something we could excel at […]
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 […]
How to Teach Your Teen Crucial Driving Rules
• April 13, 2019 • 0 Comments • CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DUI/DWI, SAFETY, SEAT BELT, Speed Limits, Tips
Kids grow up so fast. And before you know it, your 14-year-old comes to you asking to teach them how to drive. That’s the conversation my son came to me several months ago, with traditional beggings, like “everyone at school already knows how to drive” and “I want to be cool like other kids.” And […]
NMA Principle Number 6: Reasonable highway user fees for maintaining and improving highways, not for financing non-highway projects
• April 12, 2019 • 0 Comments • Automated Traffic Enforcement, Congestion Pricing, Corruption, Fuel Tax, Gas Tax, NMA, PRIVACY, REVENUE GENERATION, ROAD-USER FEES, SAFETY, Speed Limits, Technology, TOLL, TOLL ROAD, TOLLING, Traffic Congestion
The Driving in America Blog was started a year ago to bring more information to those who are beginning their journey as motorists’ rights advocates. Over the next several months, I will be working with each of the seven NMA principles to give readers of this weekly blog some idea of what we all are working towards […]
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