Well, that didn’t take long. The car companies have decided — on their own — to install automated braking in all the cars they make by the 2022 model year, just six years from now. They have come to love Big Brother. No, they have become Big Brother. Anticipating a federal mandate, they have decided […]
486 Blog Posts From the Speed Limits Tag
The Glaucomic Google Car
Old people tend not to drive fast. Or even the speed limit. They sometimes drive into things, too. This is understandable. They are, after all, old. One day — if we’re lucky — we’ll all be old. What grates is the deliberate obliviousness of some older drivers. Nothing like getting caught behind an old coot […]
More excuses
Engineering judgment… factors not apparent… curves… driveways… transition… because we want to. Reading speed limit studies for California cities reminded me of the excuses engineers use when they don’t want to do their job. Based on an unscientific survey, about two-thirds of California municipal traffic engineers and consultants aren’t doing their job. Or they consider […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: March 2, 2016
March 2, 2016 • 0 Comments • Red-Light Cameras, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, TheNewspaper, Toll Roads, Traffic Tickets
Each Wednesday, we’ll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We’re doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Virginia Lawmakers Consider Slowing Toll Push Virginia’s last three governors, Republican and Democrat alike, rejected […]
A city council suffers speed limit regret
It was otherwise an ordinary story about a reluctant California city forced to comply with the speed trap law. One thing stood out. Santa Monica councilors wanted to repeal a speed limit set based on an engineering study and replace it with a lower statutory speed limit. Obviously they shouldn’t do that. But can they? This […]
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