The easiest way to make a sale is to have something to sell that people want but no one else is selling. Like a diesel pick-up truck, for instance. There are very few — and only one that isn’t at least a 1500. It’s the mid-sized GMC Canyon (and its Chevy-badged twin, the Colorado) which […]
TheNewspaper.com Roundup: May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016 • 0 Comments • Red-Light Cameras, Speed Cameras, Speed Traps, TheNewspaper, Traffic Tickets
Each Wednesday, we’ll publish quick summaries of the articles from the last week on TheNewspaper.com. We’re doing this because these articles are often strongly connected to the issues that National Motorists Association members are interested in. Wednesday, May 18, 2016 Redflex Attacks Former Executive Former Redflex executive vice president Aaron M. Rosenberg is scheming to […]
Do as I say
A report and accompanying press release from Down Under shows how our prescriptive attitude towards speed limits is backwards. Australian researchers asked drivers how fast they thought it was safe to go. They also measured how fast drivers actually went. They rediscovered a phenomenon I have frequently commented on. In America people drive 70 but […]
Oklahoma DOT refuses to raise speed limit
Last week an Oklahoma DOT spokesman said the agency did not want to comply with a new law raising the speed limit. Here’s the background. Under current law the maximum allowable speed limit is 65 on two lane roads and 70 on divided highways. The Turnpike is 75. Remember “Convoy”? “We rolled up Interstate 44 […]
Maybe You Remember?
Have you ever set point gap? The answer dates you. If the answer is yes, then (probably) you’re old enough to buy beer. Back in the ‘80s. Otherwise, you probably have no idea what “points” — in the mechanical sense — are. Much less how (and why) “gap” is an adjustment that must be made […]
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