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1.    National Focus

2.   Top Regional and Local Headlines

3.   Motorist Corner

4.   Best from Auto Press

5.   Opinion

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National Focus

The November 8th Elections included many transportation and motorist-focused ballot measures. Here are just some of the national headlines:

Traffic Safety Headlines in the News This Week:                 

Surveillance and Cybersecurity–an Always Important Headline Topic:

Auto Tech Watch Headlines This Week:                                

Are You Buying a Vehicle Soon? Here are some Headlines that Might be of Interest:          

On the Infrastructure Watch Front this Week:                       

In Trucking Industry News this Week:                                    

In National Driving News Headlines:                                       

In International Driving News Headlines:                               

For a daily dose of motorist rights news, check out the NMA Driving News Feed  today! 

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 Top Regional and Local Headlines

California                

Colorado             

Florida               

Massachusetts           

North Carolina   

New York    

Ohio               

Other Regional and Local Driving News Headlines

Motorist-Related Legislative News 

Check out the NMA State Pages today! 

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Motorist Corner

On this week’s Driving in America Blog, we did a retake on a newsletter from the summer entitled: Is it Time to “Sound Off” about the Use of Lights and Sirens? In our second blog post, NMA blogger Eric Peters discusses his thoughts on drive-by-wire steering.

Eric also gives his viewpoint on the 2022 VW Taos.

The Car Coach, Lauren Fix, on her vlog looks into how odds for a railway strike have increased again.

NMA in the News This Week:
North Carolina city of Greenville scraps red-light cameras after legal challenges (NMA Mention) (The Center Square)     

If you have written and had posted a motorist rights advocacy letter-to-the-editor or find a news story where the NMA is mentioned, please send us the link via email nma@motorists.org. Here are some links of interest: the NMA websiteNMA Issues Pages, and the NMA Blog. Check them out today! 

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Best from Auto Press

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Opinion

Will Gas Stations Survive the Evolution Towards Electric Vehicles? 

We still need gas stations as long as we drive internal combustion engines (ICE). That’s obviously a given.

According to Kelley Blue Book, though, automakers sold 576,000 EVs in the last nine months–a whopping 70-percent increase during the previous year. If we continue buying electric vehicles (EVs) at this pace, we will need electric chargers on a much larger scale.  . .

(click on title for full op-ed)