New Law Mandates Cars Must Sound Alarm When Speeding
By Lauren Fix The bill requires that passive speed limiters be installed in all new cars manufactured or sold in California by 2032. Car makers are not going to make a car for just one state, which means speed limiters in all states. This is the crazy part – the bill before California lawmakers would […]
National Transportation Safety Board Calls For Speed-Limiting in Cars
By Lauren Fix We have played this game before. And we have won. Now it’s time to play it once more and we need your support! The NTSB urged 17 automakers to install intelligent speed-assistance technology in all new vehicles that, at a minimum, warns a driver when the vehicle is speeding. The National Transportation […]
Reducing Speed Limits to 20 mph has little Impact on Driving Behavior: NMA E-Newsletter #728
UK research found that cutting speed limits on urban roads does not significantly improve safety. The likely reason—motorists will drive the speed limit they feel most comfortable with based on road design, weather conditions, and traffic. Belfast officials changed the speed limits to 20 mph on 76 roads in 2016. Researchers analyzed data from before […]
Highway Deaths in Rural America
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #714 in September 2022. The Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) released a study called America’s Rural Roads: Beautiful and Deadly earlier this month. Researchers found that between 2016 and 2020, 40 percent of US traffic deaths occurred on rural roads. A total of 85,002 […]
Community Speed Watch: Is it Snitching or Driver Education?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #713 in September 2022. If you like to subscribe to the NMA one topic motorist issue newsletter, click here. Green Bay, Wisconsin Police Department recently announced that it has partnered with the Green Bay Neighborhood Associations to start a ‘Community Speed Watch.’ […]
ADAS Accidents—A Perfect Storm Towards the Car of the Future?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #709 from August 2022. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, a weekly one-topic look at a motorist issue, click here. Automakers and safety advocates have pushed for more Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) on new vehicles for years. But is […]
How to Make Your Teen’s Driving Lesson More Engaging
It’s likely hard to believe that your teenager is all grown up and driving. While this milestone can be exciting, it can also be dangerous. Getting out on the road with your teen for the first time might be a frightening experience for both of you. However, the best way to ensure they’re paying attention […]
Not so Fast and very Furious–More Government Controls on your Vehicle
By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach You may not be aware of this, but the infrastructure bill that passed in 2021 includes speed regulations on all vehicles. Yes, that bill that no one reads! We did talk about breathalyzers and how those are being installed by 2026. That will change the way you drive your […]
Practice Driver Courtesy Year Round
Today is the last day of the National Motorists Association’s Driver Courtesy Month. If you have read the Driving in America Blog over the last four weeks, you will know that this year, the NMA’s Driver Education Committee has been working with freelance animator John Weeden to produce 15 different driver courtesy animations. We encourage […]
Week Four of NMA’s Driver Courtesy Month 2022
The National Motorists Association presents Driver Courtesy Month with a presentation of 15 animations developed by the NMA’s Driver Education Committee and freelance animator John Weeden. Each of the five Fridays in September on the Driving in America Blog, we are presenting three of the animations. If you would like to see them all at […]