NMA Reboot: We Settled the Red-Light Camera Debate Long Ago
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: Red-light cameras are returning to Fayetteville, North Carolina, this summer after nearly an eight-year absence. The reason? State lawmakers changed the funding formula specifically for Fayetteville and made cameras profitable again. In 2005, the […]
NMA Reboot: How Smart are “Smart Highways?”
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: “Smart highways” that continually adapt to changing traffic conditions are taking hold across the globe. Such highways seek to optimize traffic flow by manipulating the operating parameters of the highway in real time. For […]
NMA Reboot: Out-Of-State Tickets Can Lead to Nasty Surprises Down the Road
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: Virginia lawmakers recently enacted a measure to curb aggressive speed trapping practices in the commonwealth by reducing the financial incentives for local police to write high number of tickets. The law lowers the threshold […]
NMA Reboot: New Headlight Law is Arbitrary and Unnecessary
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: The drivers’ paradise of Massachusetts just became the 18th state to require that drivers turn on their headlights whenever their windshield wipers are on. At best, the new law is arbitrary and unnecessary; at […]
NMA Reboot: The Pay as You Drive Insurance End Game
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: Progressive Insurance recently announced a change in its premium structure for users of its Snapshot Pay as You Drive (PAYD) program, at least in one state. Snapshot users in Missouri can now face surcharges […]
NMA Reboot: When Did “To Protect and Serve” become “To Ticket and Arrest?”
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: Last week the ACLU of Georgia settled a case with DeKalb County involving a man who was jailed for not paying traffic fines. The man, Kevin Thompson, spent five days in jail for not […]
NMA Reboot: Cell Phones Prime Targets for Illegal Searches
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: A Quebec man has been charged with obstruction after refusing to surrender his smartphone password to border officials upon returning to Canada from the Dominican Republic. The man, Alain Philippon, considered the demand an […]
NMA Reboot: It’s a Biometric World After All
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: Privacy buffs looking for a way to thwart facial recognition systems may have found a solution. Tech company AVG Innovation Labs, has developed a pair of eyeglasses outfitted with infrared lights that can disrupt […]
NMA Reboot: Lane Courtesy Should Always be Taken Seriously
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: The Alaska Dispatch News recently reported that some state lawmakers don’t seem to be spending their time on the substantive issues of the day. Instead, they’re passing ceremonial bills, debating resolutions to create an […]
NMA Reboot: School Bus Cameras Don’t Make our Kids Any Safer
This weekly post features recent news stories that highlight and update themes previously covered throughout NMA E-Newsletters and Alerts. Editor’s Note: Indiana lawmakers are considering legislation to allow the use of school bus stop arm cameras to record alleged passing violations of stopped school buses. Supporters play upon the strong emotions elicited by the prospects […]