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 […]

Conditioned to Assistance

Ever had someone bump into your elbow when you were trying to drink a cup of hot coffee? Advance Driver Assistance “technology” called Lane Keep Assist works on the same principle. Here is the scenario: You are driving down an empty highway and decide to change lanes to avoid a road obstruction but you fail […]

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 […]

Beating the Photo Ticket Runaround

This article first appeared in the Fall 2021 edition of the National Motorists Association’s Driving Freedoms magazine. As a member of the NMA, you receive an automatic subscription four times per year. Become a member today and help the NMA advocate against automated traffic enforcement and other issues affecting motorists.  Editor’s Note: Many accounts have […]

V2X Technology: An Intelligent Driver Assist System or is it Giving Control to a Robot

If you are aware of technologies that enable information sharing in real-time, you might probably have come across the term V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) technology. This is where vehicles are equipped with technologies that enable communication with different entities, just like the BMW you watched being pulled by a smartphone as if it was remotely controlled. Or […]

The Push to Curtail Driving

The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is the government’s massive document that controls the application of regulatory devices like stop signs, crosswalk markings, and traffic lights. The MUTCD, last updated in 2009, is the current subject of a proposed federal rule by the FHWA. The sweeping revisions suggested by […]

More Hands on Deck: NMA E-Newsletter #641

Member response to the NMA’s April 13th email alert and last week’s newsletter, All Hands on Deck, #640, has been tremendous. This grassroots campaign is focused on convincing the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) that key components of its planned update to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) will make the roads less, not […]

Lane Courtesy or Law–A California Cultural Examination

By California NMA Member Norman Risch  Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared as an NMA E-Newsletter #439 in June 2017. If you would like to receive the NMA E-Newsletter every Sunday in your inbox, subscribe HERE. While the NMA has been increasingly promoting left lane courtesy for years, I can compare several states in which […]

Carjacking Epidemic–What would you Do?

By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach Carjackings, or the robbery of a car by threat of force by an attacker, has increased significantly since the pandemic began. Carjackings are becoming a pandemic, and it’s not just happening in certain cities. It’s happening everywhere—gas stations and even at parking lots in apartment complexes. We’re starting to […]