As I read the daily news reports from NMA, I notice that traffic fatalities have climbed in the last couple of years. The phrase “distracted driving” also keeps cropping up. This correlates with the recent introduction of massive in-car, multi-function computer installations. It would seem that new car complexity may be a contributing factor to […]
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New Auto Tech Equals Distracted Driving
• January 18, 2019 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, NMA, SAFETY, Technology
The Next Ten Years – Readers’ Edition, Part 1: NMA E-Newsletter #522
January 14, 2019 • 0 Comments • 85TH PERCENTILE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DRIVERLESS CARS, DUI/DWI, Infrastructure, NMA, NMA Foundation, PRIVACY, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, Technology
When we published E-Newsletter #520, The Next Ten Years, on December 30, 2018 with predictions from some NMA and NMA Foundation directors of the challenges that the NMA and motoring public are going to face over the next decade, we encouraged readers to provide their insights. And boy, have you. We currently have enough material […]
CES 2019—The Newest Trends and Developments for the Things We Drive
• January 13, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Auto Industry, CELL PHONE, DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Motorcycle, Mass Transit, SAFETY, Technology
Whether we can attend or not, many of us enjoy the second week of January because it is time for the yearly Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) in Las Vegas. CES is not just for computers, TVs and phones but more and more—visions for the car of the future. There are two big trends that […]
Drivers Placing Too Much Faith in Driver Assistant Technology
From Robert E. Whitley, Raleigh personal injury attorney of the Whitley Law Firm. There are many convenient features in vehicles these days. Many of them are meant to make the vehicle safer for the drivers and passengers in the vehicle. A new study has found though, that those safety features may actually be a danger […]
The Automotive Low Flush Toilet
I wish I could take credit for this one, but I can’t. However, I will shamelessly use it — and credit the reader (thanks, Jim!) who made the analogy: Auto-stop/start systems — which have become de facto standard equipment in all new cars — are the automotive equivalent of the low flush toilet. You may […]
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