From guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog All across the country, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is hard at work convincing cities to lower their speed limits to 25 MPH. The national effort to lower speed limits in cities is a fundamental tenet of a movement known as “Vision Zero.” To date, the National Highway […]
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Boston’s “Vision Zero” Exposed: Lowering the speed limit increases speeding ticket revenue by 47%: NMA E-Newsletter #506
September 23, 2018
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85TH PERCENTILE, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, Facial Recognition, IIHS, Insurance Company, MASSACHUSETTS, NEWSLETTER, NHTSA, NMA, NMA Foundation, REVENUE GENERATION, RHODE ISLAND, SAFETY, SPEED LIMIT, TICKET REVENUE, VISION ZERO
History Repeating Itself: NMA E-Newsletter #381
By Gary Biller, NMA President My indoctrination to NMA affairs was immediate when I joined the organization in July 2009. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, that bastion of the auto insurance industry, had just released a report titled, Long Term Effects of Repealing the National Maximum Speed Limit (NMSL) in the United States. The […]
The Backwards IIHS: NMA E-Newsletter #356
November 8, 2015
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DRIVER EDUCATION, Driver's License, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, IIHS, MARYLAND, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, SAFETY, SPEED CAMERA
The NMA has never been shy about calling out the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) for its agenda-driven “research,” shoddy methodology and reality-defying study results. So, we were skeptical when we read this headline in the latest IIHS newsletter: “Offering skid avoidance course to teen drivers doesn’t improve safety.” The article summarizes a Maryland […]
Where’s the Skepticism? NMA E-Newsletter #349
September 20, 2015
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ARIZONA, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, IIHS, NEWSLETTER, SPEED CAMERA, TICKET CAMERA
Good reporters are skeptical by nature. They’re not supposed to take official pronouncements at face value; they’re supposed to dig deeper to get the real story. Yet, we constantly see lazy reporting on driving issues or stories that simply parrot the latest propaganda from the likes of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Don’t […]
NMA E-Newsletter #348: Bogus Statistics Hide Real Problems and Solutions
September 13, 2015
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DRIVER EDUCATION, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, IIHS, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, SPEED CAMERA, SPEED LIMIT, SPEED TRAP, SPEEDING
Proponents of aggressive speed enforcement routinely trot out the old saw that speeding causes one-third of all traffic fatalities. Predictably, this dubious assertion showed up in the bogus IIHS speed camera report we deconstructed in last week’s newsletter. We say dubious because there is ample evidence to show that speed is a contributing factor in […]
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