Speed Limiters Will Kill Driving
By Eric Peters For NMA You’ve probably heard about what is being marketed as “speed limit assistance technology.” The italics to make a point of the fact about what is – as opposed to what they’re trying to get you to believe it is. It is not about “assisting” you – just as you are […]
Driving a Semi-Truck vs. Driving a Car: What Are the Main Differences?
By Martin Banks Semi-trucks and passenger cars are two major ways to get from point A to point B. Your typical sedan requires only a standard driver’s license, whereas driving an 18-wheeler mandates a commercial driver’s license because they’re more complicated. What makes these automobiles distinct and how are they similar? While size is the […]
A Casualty of Revenue Collection
By Eric Peters, NMA Member and Syndicated Columnist They say “speed kills.” Here is a case-in-point. A cop driving at very high speed struck and killed a motorcycle rider who had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time — that place and time being in the path of the […]
Speeding in the Rearview
By Eric Peters, NMA Member and Syndicated Columnist The country saying goes, Let’s you and him fight. The government deploys a variation of the logic underlying this saying when someone else does something stupid or criminal to impose restrictions and punishments . . . on you and me. Who didn’t do it. A drug-addled maniac […]
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 […]
The Signs Are There
By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in June 2022 as E-Newsletter #700. If you would like to subscribe to the NMA’s weekly one-topic newsletter, click here. How ironic is it that, for all the special-interest handwringing about speed being the primary cause of traffic fatalities, distractions on the road draw […]
Lime Turns E-Scooters into Micromobility Surveillance Platforms
By Joe Cadillic, founder of Politically Incorrect News on Substack Under the guise of public safety, Lime’s E-scooters could soon be recording everyone and everything they see. A recent article in TechCrunch revealed that Lime’s advanced rider assistance technology (ARAT) will be using a camera to detect when riders are on sidewalks. “At a Lime event in Paris, the […]
The Signs Are There: NMA E-Newsletter #700
How ironic is it that, for all the special-interest handwringing about speed being the primary cause of traffic fatalities, distractions on the road draw far less attention as a root cause of safety issues? That road users other than drivers suffer distractions that can have dangerous consequences is a topic for another time. Let’s focus […]
How to Drive in the Snow Safely–Need to Know Tips & Tricks
by Lauren Fix The first and most important is to be proactive. Seventy percent of drivers on the road are not prepared for winter. If you have 4-wheel drive and heated seated, that’s not enough. First of all, make sure your car is mechanically sound before the temperature dips, and the streets get icy. Many vehicles are […]
A Data-Driven Approach to Transportation Safety Part 3: NMA E-Newsletter #672
By Randal O’Toole, The Antiplanner Editor’s Note: The NMA has received permission to post this report on recent findings on traffic safety in the US. Read Parts 1 and Part 2 for more information. Data-Driven Safety Such data-driven analyses play almost no role in urban traffic safety programs today. For example, Vision Zero is based on […]