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The Slow March toward Forced Temperance: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #571

December 22, 2019 • DADSS, DISTRACTED DRIVING, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE, LEGISLATION, NEWSLETTER, NMA, PRIVACY, Road Safety, Technology

It’s been seven years since we wrote about the Driver Alcohol Detection System and Safety (DADSS) program–A Frog in the Pot, E-newsletter #187–and efforts to make ignition interlock devices standard equipment in all vehicles. Proponents of forcing all drivers to pass alcohol detection testing before being able to operate their cars are nothing if not […]

“These Cameras Are Not a Safety Tool . . .”: NMA E-Newsletter #556

September 8, 2019 • Automated Traffic Enforcement, DISTRACTED DRIVING, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, IIHS, ITE, NEWSLETTER, PRIVACY, RED LIGHT CAMERA, REVENUE GENERATION, RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED, SAFETY, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Safety, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety took a page out of its own book, and that of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), by issuing a recent report on red-light running with a title designed to send the media into a frenzy. “Red Light Running Deaths Hit 10 Year High” did exactly that. While […]

Vision Zero Invasion of the Car Itself: NMA E-Newsletter #532

March 24, 2019 • AUTO INDUSTRY, BAC, BLACK BOX, BREATHALYZER, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DRIVERLESS CARS, EDR, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, EVENT DATA RECORDER, GPS, IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, PRIVACY, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, TPMS, VISION ZERO

In three years, all new cars and light-trucks purchased in EU countries will be required to include standard price-increasing features that will change how motorists drive. Members of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection voted in February to approve a range of new vehicle safety standards initially proposed by the European […]

The Next Ten Years – Readers’ Edition, Part 1: NMA E-Newsletter #522

January 13, 2019 • 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 […]

Walking While Distracted–Nobody Wins: NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #481

April 1, 2018 • ARIZONA, AUTO INDUSTRY, CALIFORNIA, CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DRIVERLESS CARS, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, HAWAII, IDAHO, New York City, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, SAFETY, Technology, TEXTING, WASHINGTON

Have we become a nation of cellphone zombies? Many experts believe that the increase in distracted driving, in particular using a cellphone to text while driving, has been a big factor in the increase of traffic fatalities since 2009. Another factor apparently is distracted walking. Pedestrian deaths account for 16 percent of all traffic fatalities. […]

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