Car with Personality: Are we ready for this?
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the NMA Blog in April 2018. We felt it still has resonance today. I admit…I have always named my cars and talked to them too. Not because I am a lonely and sad person but because I want to imbue good feelings in my space—talking to my car […]
The Hidden Danger of Buying a Used Connected Car
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the September 2018 NMA Blog. It still has important advice for those interested in purchasing a used connected car. The media has made much ado about remote car hacking and it is a serious concern but there is another concern that could potentially be more devastating for a […]
Has the Aerial Surveillance of America now become a Thing?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director and Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog Even before the recent protests against police brutality, local police and other governmental agencies were using airplanes to surveil streets. In the summer of 2016, the city of Baltimore secretly used airplanes to surveil its citizens. Let me restate that, the city actually didn’t […]
We Don’t Need No Street Surveillance
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director and Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog The Street Surveillance Watch Blog comes to you biweekly on the National Motorists Association Blog. If you have comments or suggestions, write a comment after this blog or contact us at nma@motorists.org. We Don’t Want No Street Surveillance Joe and I have been wrestling […]
The Unintended Consequences of Self-Driving Cars
Driverless cars have not yet attained acceptance all over the world. The big companies like Alphabet’s Waymo are attempting to make driverless cars a reality. With the development of driverless cars, it is clear that driverless or autonomous cars/vehicles (AVs) can be harmful to humans in distinct ways. Not Affordable For All AVs will be […]
Do we really need Smart Cities?
Written by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director with Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog The Street Surveillance Watch Blog comes to you biweekly on the National Motorists Association Blog. If you have comments or suggestions, write a comment after this blog or contact us at nma@motorists.org. Do we really need Smart Cities? Even before the COVID0-19 crisis, […]
Law Enforcement is Using License Plate Readers to “Grid” Entire Neighborhoods
By guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as NMA E-Newsletter #554 from August 2019. If you would like to receive our weekly Email Newsletter, please join the NMA today and help us fight automated license plate readers or ALPRs wherever they might be. Since April 2020, guest writer […]
Another Study on Why we don’t like Driverless Cars
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director I don’t know about you, but I am tired of seeing stories on why we don’t “like” driverless cars. How many studies has it been already? The latest study comes from an advocacy group called Partner for Automated Vehicle Education or PAVE. Nearly half of the 1,200 adults surveyed […]
Travel Restrictions in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis
Written by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director with Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog The Street Surveillance Watch Blog comes to you biweekly on the National Motorists Association Blog. If you have comments or suggestions, write a comment after this blog or contact us at nma@motorists.org. Travel Restrictions in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis Ever since the […]
Contact Tracing in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis
Written by Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director with Joe Cadillic, MassPrivatel Blog The Street Surveillance Watch Blog comes to you biweekly on the National Motorists Association Blog. If you have comments or suggestions, write a comment after this blog or contact us at nma@motorists.org. Contact Tracing in the Time of COVID-19 Crisis Disturbing surveillance trends […]