New Technology Will Use AI Speed Cameras That Can ‘Spy Inside’ Your Car
By Lauren Fix Technology is great! Except when it’s used to control and monitor everything we do. And now new AI speed cameras are being installed on roads that will be able to spy inside our cars. These new cameras are set to be rolled out across the U.S. to catch motorists using mobile phones […]
NMA E-Newsletter #738: The Revenue-Hungry Rise of Automated Ticketing
By Jay Beeber, Director of Policy & Research For the past few years, we’ve been monitoring a concerning trend in traffic enforcement: a steady shift towards more and more automated ticketing. Unfortunately, this trend appears to be gaining momentum. In California, we’ve witnessed a surge of bills introduced that attempt to authorize various forms of […]
NMA E-Newsletter #736: Your Freedom to Travel is Under Attack
By Jay Beeber, Director of Policy & Research, National Motorists Association If there was any doubt before, now we have a clear indication that the WAR ON CARS is real –and it’s being waged at the highest levels of society by authoritarian culture warriors. These tyrannical elitists seek to eliminate our freedom to travel where […]
Red-Light Camera Merry-Go-Round in North Carolina
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared in May 2022 as NMA Weekly Newsletter #694. If you would like to receive the one-topic motorist-related newsletter every Sunday in your inbox, subscribe Here. Red-light cameras have once again been declared unconstitutional in North Carolina. No one is surprised because this is the second time RLCs have been […]
Tale of Two Cities’ Smart Intersection Programs
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared in April 2022 as NMA Weekly Newsletter #693. If you would like to receive the one-topic motorist-related newsletter every Sunday in your inbox, subscribe Here. Pittsburgh, PA, and Lakeland, FL have instituted smart intersections but are handling them differently. As more cities become connected, i.e., having elements of infrastructure […]
The USDOT, Speed Cameras, and Automated Corruption
By Gary Biller, NMA President Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on February 13, 2022, as a NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #683. It didn’t take long after Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Transportation Secretary, introduced his department’s 42-page National Roadway Safety Strategy for people to grasp the importance of a tiny sentence buried in Note 3 on Page 28 of […]
Red-Light Camera Merry-Go-Round in North Carolina: NMA E-Newsletter #694
Red-light cameras have once again been declared unconstitutional in North Carolina. No one is surprised because this is the second time RLCs have been declared in violation of state law. Policing for profit, even if it is allegedly designed to benefit the school systems, always has a stench about it. Case in point—the city of Greenville […]
Tale of Two Cities’ Smart Intersection Programs: NMA E-Newsletter #693
Pittsburgh, PA, and Lakeland, FL have instituted smart intersections but are handling them differently. As more cities become connected, i.e., having elements of infrastructure and society interconnected digitally via the internet, intelligent signaling might revolutionize traffic flow, for better or worse. Market analysis firm Navigant Research has projected that smart signals will become a $3.8 […]
What’s Up with Philly?
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared as the cover story in the Winter 2022 Edition of the National Motorists Association’s quarterly magazine Driving Freedoms. If you would like to receive our magazine, please become a member of the NMA today! The City of Brotherly Love seems anything but when […]
The USDOT, Speed Cameras, and Automated Corruption: NMA E-Newsletter #683
It didn’t take long after Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Transportation Secretary, introduced his department’s 42-page National Roadway Safety Strategy for people to grasp the importance of a tiny sentence buried in Note 3 on Page 28 of the report: “Promote speed safety cameras as a proven safety countermeasure.” Protestations emanated from as far away as the […]