The April 15-16, 2019 conference in Ruckersville, Virginia was billed as a “national forum [seeking] to address the neglected problem of speeding.” The sponsoring organizations, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), are leading proponents of lowering speed limits with the goal of reducing highway fatalities to near […]
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A Forum About Modifying Speed Limits and Driver Behavior: NMA E-Newsletter #537
April 28, 2019
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85TH PERCENTILE, Automated Traffic Enforcement, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FHWA, GHSA, IIHS, NEWSLETTER, NMA, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET QUOTA, Traffic Tickets
The Next Ten Years – Readers’ Edition, Part 2: NMA E-Newsletter #523
January 20, 2019
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85TH PERCENTILE, ALPR, DRIVERLESS CARS, Electric Vehicle, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, Fuel Tax, infrastructure, INSURANCE, Motorcycle, NEWSLETTER, NMA, NMSL, Red-Light Camera, SAFETY, Scooter, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, TRAFFIC CALMING, TRAFFIC CONGESTION, Traffic Tickets
In NMA E-Newsletter #520, The Next Ten Years, Jim Walker, Gary Biller, and Steve Carrellas provided their thoughts — limited by the NMA to less than 300 words — on the significant challenges that motorists and the NMA will face over the next decade. We asked readers to chime in with their thoughts and published […]
The Next Ten Years – Readers’ Edition, Part 1: NMA E-Newsletter #522
January 13, 2019
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85TH PERCENTILE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DRIVERLESS CARS, DUI, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, infrastructure, NEWSLETTER, NMA, NMA Foundation, PRIVACY, RED LIGHT CAMERA, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, Technology
When we published E-Newsletter #520, The Next Ten Years, on December 30, 2018 with predictions from some NMA and NMA Foundation directors of the challenges that the NMA and motoring public are going to face over the next decade, we encouraged readers to provide their insights. And boy, have you. We currently have enough material […]
The Next Ten Years: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #520
December 30, 2018
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85TH PERCENTILE, AUTO INDUSTRY, Automated Traffic Enforcement, Congestion Pricing, DRIVERLESS CARS, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FHWA, Insurance Company, ITE, LEGISLATION, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, NMA, NMA Foundation, NSC, NTSB, POLICING FOR PROFIT, PRIVACY, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, ROAD-USER FEES, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, Technology, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, Traffic Safety, Traffic Tickets
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 […]
Political Interference in Setting Speed Limits Shouldn’t Happen: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #518
December 16, 2018
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85TH PERCENTILE, Automatic Traffic Enforcement, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, INSURANCE, Insurance Company, NEWSLETTER, NMA, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, VISION ZERO
From guest writer Ian Tootill, who is co-founder of the grassroots British Columbia motorists advocacy group SENSE BC (or Safety by Education and Not Speed Enforcement). SENSE BC and the NMA are kindred spirits, with SENSE advocating for sensible driving standards for more than 23 years and the NMA for over 36. The issues facing […]
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