By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach It’s National Women’s History Month, so let’s celebrate the Women who changed automotive history. Some great features and technologies are in your vehicle because women didn’t like the original method and invented a better solution. The first woman to drive a car was Bertha Benz. She was a pioneer […]
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Women Who Changed Automotive History Part 1
March 21, 2021 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, Car Care, CELL PHONE, Driver's License, GPS, SAFETY, Technology
Drivers to be given Real-Time “Risk Scores” using Embedded Telematic Surveillance Sensors
March 17, 2021 • 1 Comment • Auto Industry, Black Boxes, CELL PHONE, connected cars, GPS, INSURANCE, Insurance Companies, M2M, OBD, PRIVACY, racial profiling, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, Technology, VISION ZERO
By Joe Cadillic, co-writer of the NMA Street Surveillance Blog and founder of the MassPrivatel Blog Gone are the days when insurance companies used race, sex, and a person’s age to determine their auto insurance premiums. A new whitepaper by Cognizant, titled The New Auto Insurance Ecosystem: Telematics, Mobility and the Connected Car, reveals the real reasons […]
Walking While Distracted–Nobody Wins
• February 19, 2021 • 0 Comments • CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, Distracted Walking, DRIVERLESS CARS, GHSA, Jaywalking, NHTSA, PEDESTRIAN, SAFETY, Technology, TEXTING, traffic safety
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in April 2018 as NMA E-Newsletter #481. If you would like to receive the weekly one-topic NMA Newsletter, subscribe today! 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 […]
Carjacking Epidemic–What would you Do?
February 7, 2021 • 0 Comments • Carjacking, CELL PHONE, Parking, RENTAL CAR, SAFETY, Tips, Traffic Signals
By Lauren Fix, The Car Coach Carjackings, or the robbery of a car by threat of force by an attacker, has increased significantly since the pandemic began. Carjackings are becoming a pandemic, and it’s not just happening in certain cities. It’s happening everywhere—gas stations and even at parking lots in apartment complexes. We’re starting to […]
So, Who IS Responsible in a Driverless Car Accident?
• January 29, 2021 • 0 Comments • Bicycle, CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DRIVERLESS CARS, NHTSA, NTSB, PEDESTRIAN, road safety, SAFETY, Technology
Editor’s Note: This post first appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #617 from November 2020. If you would like to receive the weekly NMA E-Newsletter, subscribe today. For years, an ongoing debate has been raging in the media about who would be responsible when a driverless vehicle injured or killed another road user. Perhaps, we will […]
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