The long awaited but not too surprising ruling by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week on turning back the Obama era CAFÉ Standards seems to have confused the issue even more. At issue: by 2025, automakers who want to sell new cars to American consumers must boost a corporate average fuel economy (CAFÉ) to […]
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Vehicle Emissions Standards—Now What?
• April 8, 2018 • 0 Comments • ARIZONA, Auto Industry, CALIFORNIA, CONNECTICUT, Fuel, MAINE, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, OREGON, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE ISLAND, VERMONT, VMT, WASHINGTON
Car Black Box—Did you know you had one?
• March 30, 2018 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, Black Boxes, Driver's License, EVENT DATA RECORDER, Insurance Companies, LICENSE PLATE, NHTSA, NMA, PRIVACY, SAFETY, Traffic Tickets, VMT
A vehicle’s event data recorder (sometimes called EDRs) or a black box (similar to what planes have) generally capture rudimentary information just prior to an accident. The inflation of the airbag initiates the retention of up to 15 different pieces of information such as vehicle speed, seat belt use and brake application. Currently, black boxes […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: November 27, 2017
November 27, 2017 • 0 Comments • FOURTH AMENDMENT, Fuel, Insurance Companies, REVENUE GENERATION, Speed Cameras, TheNewspaper, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Congestion, VMT
In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –Trump Adm plans to shut down Highway Greenhouse Gas Rule– –OK plans to use ALPRs to find Insurance scofflaws– Friday, November 24, 2017 Louisiana: Black Motorist Beaten For Pulling Over In Safe Location A black motorist who failed to instantly pull over when a Shreveport, Louisiana police officer turned on […]
Autonomous Vehicles will disrupt City Budgets
• August 6, 2017 • 0 Comments • DRIVERLESS CARS, Gas Tax, REVENUE GENERATION, Toll Roads, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Tickets, VMT
The NMA Foundation presents The Car of the Future weekly feature: In the many scenarios of the car of the future, parking, as we know it, will likely be non-existent since commuters will either be subscribed to a ridesharing service or autonomous vehicle (AVs) owners will allow their vehicles to work for others while they are at work. […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: October 31, 2016
October 31, 2016 • 0 Comments • Fuel, Red-Light Cameras, Speed Cameras, TheNewspaper, Toll Roads, Traffic Tickets, VMT, Yellow Light Duration
In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! -More craziness with the Chicago Redflex Corruption Case -Income-based Per-mile Driving Tax Recommendations -No Safety Benefit from RLC Friday, October 28, 2016 Chicago, Illinois Seeks Gag Order In Redflex Corruption Case Worried at the prospect of embarrassing information leaking out of its court case against Redflex Traffic Systems, the city […]
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