NMA Reboot: Tesla’s Autopilot Fails Raise Safety/Liability Concerns
Editor’s Note: Tesla’s recent rollout out of its Autopilot autonomous driving software has been marred by several road mishaps: two in which the vehicle veered out of its lane and another in which the Autopilot-controlled vehicle was cited for speeding. These glitches raise a host of safety and liability concerns over driverless car technology, many […]
NMA Reboot: Ticket Cameras Create Major Due Process Concerns
Editor’s Note: As part of her excellent series on speed cameras, Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Kathryn Watson addressed the due process violations created by photo-based traffic enforcement. The NMA has been concerned about these issues for years and discussed one important aspect, the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution, in this newsletter from […]
NMA Reboot: Speed Camera Jiujutsu
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: In a particularly thorough article on speed cameras this week, The Daily Caller briefly recounts the story of Will Foreman, the Maryland business owner who successfully fought numerous bogus speed camera tickets triggered by […]
NMA Reboot: The Pot Accuses the Kettle
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: In a bizarre turn of events the City of Chicago has filed a $300 million lawsuit against its former red-light camera contractor Redflex for bribing city officials to land the city’s camera contract. The […]
NMA Reboot: When Wrong Becomes Right
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: Patricia Parker’s six-year ordeal is emblematic of everything that is wrong with the traffic justice system, especially as practiced in many small towns across America: a bogus traffic stop followed by unwarranted citations and […]
NMA Reboot: Enlightened Traffic Enforcement—Pass it on
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: Drivers in Maine are benefiting from a statewide trend toward issuing warnings rather than actual traffic tickets. Data show that speeding convictions have dropped significantly over the last 10 years, and police officials attribute […]
NMA Reboot: With Red-Light Cameras, Time is Money
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: The Orange County, Florida, Board of Commissioners recently decided to refund $41,080 worth of red-light camera citations issued at one intersection between August 2012 and May 2013. It turns out the 4.0 second yellow-light […]
NMA Reboot: “Radargate” Revisited
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: The city of Asheville, North Carolina, recently announced it was refunding fines for approximately 500 speeding tickets. An audit revealed that the tickets had been issued using improperly calibrated radar guns or by officers […]
NMA Reboot: How to Rig the Speed Camera Game
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: We all know that ticket camera companies and their public official partners have to rig the game to make money. Such is the case with Chicago’s extensive speed camera network where the placement of […]
NMA Reboot: Ticket Surcharges are Punitive and Counterproductive
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: The LA Times just ran this editorial decrying the excessive surcharges added to ordinary traffic tickets. The Times points out that surcharges make up about 80 percent of the total ticket cost, so a […]