Holding a Phone While Driving in North Carolina Could Become Illegal Next Year
By Ben Whitley, personal injury lawyer of Whitley Law Firm. A texting-while-driving law has been on the books in North Carolina for several years but police claim it is completely unenforceable. The reason—if you are over the age of 18, you can still hold a phone while driving. Police officers have no way of knowing […]
7 Safety Tips for Driving at Night
Driving at night doubles the risk and is more dangerous than driving throughout the day. The human eye needs light to see, which makes a driver’s ability to judge and perceive distance at night impaired. The combination of headlight glare, road lights, darkness, and limited sight can cause problems when driving at night. Night Driving […]
The Dangers of Unintentional Idling
If you don’t think your engine’s still running, you might forget to turn it off. Well, you might forget to push the ignition button off because the engine isn’t running right now. It seems to be off. So you think it is, don’t push Off and leave the car. Which might start running again a few minutes after you […]
5 Steps to Making Sure Your Teen Driver is Confident and Safe behind the Wheel
As a parent, challenging moments and hard times are par for the course. But in spite of all the hard work of the early years and the frustration that can come with early adolescence, nothing quite prepares you for preparing your child to drive. While your teen is probably dreaming of their perfect first car, […]
Tougher Penalties are Here for Drivers Caught with a Phone in Illinois
By Chicago personal injury attorney Michael McCready of McCready Law Illinois has some of the toughest distracted driving laws in the country. While other states only ban texting and driving, Illinois is one of a handful of states that have made it illegal to hold your phone even while you drive. Lawmakers say that distracted […]
Universal Road User Charges Really? Many Questions that need Answers by the Rest of Us
Editor’s Note: One of our Texas members wrote the following guest post as a response to this past week’s first part of the NMA three-part newsletter called: Are We Slinking Ever Closer to a Universal Road User Charge. Parts two and three will be on the website www.motorists.org on July 28 and August 4, respectively. […]
Cycle Therapy
There are sound, practical reasons for owning a motorcycle that transcend fantastic gas mileage and low buy-in cost. I speak of the therapeutic aspects of motorcycle ownership. Knowing you have one; that it’s out in the garage ready to go whenever you are. Just looking at it is therapeutic even if you can’t ride it […]
The Evolution of Car Infotainment Systems (Infographic)
Discover how in-car infotainment systems have evolved over the decades and see what infotainment might look like in the future. What is an Infotainment System? A car infotainment system makes use of hardware and software technology to deliver entertainment and information to the vehicle occupants. They typically comprise audio and video interfaces, touchscreens and keypads. […]
NMA Wrap Up of Legislative Activity, 2nd Quarter 2019: NMA E-Newsletter #547
April, May, and June were busy months in state legislatures where many of the bills affecting motorists that were introduced in the first quarter, or carried forward from last year, were resolved. The results were a mixed bag, but the biggest victory was a special one: Governor Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law House […]
Where’s Our Cut from Data Mining of our Cars?
You’ve probably seen people driving around in cars covered over or “wrapped” with advertisements for some service or product and wondered how much the owner got paid to allow his car to be transformed into a mobile billboard. But he is at least getting paid. The non-wrapped cars are working, too but their owners aren’t being […]