Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the NMA Blog in April 2018. We felt it still has resonance today. I admit…I have always named my cars and talked to them too. Not because I am a lonely and sad person but because I want to imbue good feelings in my space—talking to my car […]
116 Blog Posts From the DISTRACTED DRIVING Tag
Car with Personality: Are we ready for this?
• July 19, 2020 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, CELL PHONE, DISTRACTED DRIVING, Fuel, IoT, PRIVACY, REVENUE GENERATION, Technology
Friends don’t let friends drive Android
Another report on distracted driving came out recently. Most people saw typical press release fluff with a bar graph with no obvious scale showing how reaction time differed depending on what drivers were doing. Driving drunk was the best thing you could do short of driving sober. Using a touch screen infotainment system was the […]
The Slow March toward Forced Temperance
March 6, 2020 • 0 Comments • DADSS, DISTRACTED DRIVING, IGNITION INTERLOCK DEVICE, LEGISLATION, NMA, PRIVACY, road safety, Technology
Editor’s Note: This piece first appeared as NMA Weekly E-Newsletter #571 which was emailed to NMA members on December 22, 2019. If you would like to receive the weekly E-Newsletter, a one-topic dive into an important aspect of motorists rights, become an NMA member today! It’s been seven years since we wrote about the Driver Alcohol […]
Minding Your Mood and your Eyeballs
• February 4, 2020 • 0 Comments • DISTRACTED DRIVING, DRIVERLESS CARS, Eric Peters, Facial Recognition, Insurance Companies, PRIVACY, Speed Limits, Technology
Memory seats are nice. But how about mood minders? In-car sensors that assess your state of mind via eye movements, facial expressions, gestures — even your rising (or falling) heartbeat — and adjust the car accordingly? Some of this is already here. Some new cars come standard with “drowsy driver” monitoring systems. Cameras embedded in the dash […]
The Panopticon Expands: Distracted Driving Cams+
• January 21, 2020 • 0 Comments • ALPR, CELL PHONE, CIVIL, DISTRACTED DRIVING, DUE PROCESS, Eric Peters, Parking, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, Speed Cameras, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
Precedent always becomes practice. Having established as legitimate the use of cameras to robotically ticket people for “speeding” and “running” red lights — timed to go red quickly, to ensnare as many drivers as possible — it was only a matter of time before the principle to include automatically ticketing people for using their cell […]
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