Road Tripping with your Toddler: What You Need to Know as a Parent
Putting your toddler in the car’s back seat for the first time can be a daunting experience and a huge parenting challenge. Namely, you and your spouse are not only going to have to focus on driving and the child’s safety, but you will also have to keep him or her entertained all the way. […]
NMA Principle Number 3: Freedom from arbitrary traffic stops and unwarranted searches/seizures
The Driving in America Blog was started a year ago to bring more information to those who are beginning their journey as motorists’ rights advocates. Over the next several months, I will be working with each of the seven NMA principles to give readers of this weekly blog some idea of what we all are working towards […]
NMA Principle Number 2: Traffic Laws Fairly Written and Reasonably Enforced
The Driving in America Blog was started a year ago to bring more information to those who are beginning their journey as motorists’ rights advocates. Over the next several months, I will be working with each of the seven NMA principles to give readers of this weekly blog some idea of what we all are working towards […]
Road Diets….They Demand a Closer Look
From guest writer Matthew Schneider, Keep Waverly (Iowa) Moving. He is also working with the newly formed national coalition Keep the US Moving which is working to help local residents across the country fight road diets and traffic calming in their cities and towns. Tahlequah, Oklahoma At the end of an extremely tense two-hour long […]
On the 2019 Legislative Agenda–Red-Light Cameras: NMA E-Newsletter #526
January and February are the heart of activity for many state legislative sessions across the country. Red-light cameras (RLCs) have certainly been the focus in a number of states. Bills in Colorado, Florida and Illinois are calling for outright bans. Legislators in Texas want to ban new camera programs while allowing existing installations to finish […]
NMA Principle Number 1: Traffic Safety through Sound Engineering and Real Driver Training
The Driving in America Blog was started a year ago to bring more information to those who are beginning their journey as motorists’ rights advocates. Over the next several months, I will be working with each of the seven NMA principles to give readers of this weekly blog some idea of what we all are […]
Drivers Placing Too Much Faith in Driver Assistant Technology
From Robert E. Whitley, Raleigh personal injury attorney of the Whitley Law Firm. There are many convenient features in vehicles these days. Many of them are meant to make the vehicle safer for the drivers and passengers in the vehicle. A new study has found though, that those safety features may actually be a danger […]
The Next Ten Years: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #520
We wanted to do something special for Issue #520 because it marks ten years of uninterrupted weekly NMA e-newsletters that, we hope, have provided entertaining (if not thought-provoking) perspectives. To carry on that tradition, NMA and NMA Foundation directors were asked to provide mini essays for the occasion. No one likes homework but they tackled […]
Bicycle Idaho Stops are Not Safe for Any Road User: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #504
Since 1982, Idaho has been the only state that has allowed bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs and stoplights as stop signs. No other state passed a similar law until 2017. Delaware now has a similar law on its book and the Idaho stop fever is starting to rise. Colorado passed a law […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: July 30, 2018
In this week’s TheNewspaper.com Roundup! –Oregon Court rejects Car Seizure over Insurance Card– –Texas Court smacks BusPatrol with $421,910 Fine– –Red-Light Cameras failed to Reduce Accidents in Texas according to new Study– Friday, July 27, 2018 Virginia Court Upholds Red-Light Cameras Virginia law has until recently forbidden legal challenges to red-light camera programs. Trials were […]