By guest writer Jim Millick Automakers have made some big announcements this past year regarding cars—I’m talking about sedans, coupes and smaller runabouts that we have all owned in the past. The car companies have decided to stop manufacturing most related models. The SUV (“sport” utility vehicle) and pickup trucks, which the U.S. Environmental Protection […]
13 Blog Posts From the Scooters Tag
What Happened to Actual Cars?: NMA E-Newsletter #560
October 7, 2019 • 1 Comment • Auto Industry, Bicyclist, Fuel, Motorcycle, RENTAL CAR, Road Diets, SAFETY, Scooters
All Traffic is Local: A Look at Force-Fed Road Diets
• June 21, 2019 • 0 Comments • Bicyclist, FHWA, Mass Transit, NMA, Ridesharing, Road Diets, SAFETY, Scooters, Traffic Congestion, VISION ZERO
This post originally appeared as the cover story for the NMA Foundation’s Driving Freedoms Magazine Spring 2019. Driving can sometimes be a daily grind. But when cities reconfigure the streets you take every day—presumably, to make them safer—that daily grind often seems much worse. The war on cars, for many drivers, is no longer an […]
Paying More for Less Service: NMA E-Newsletter #534
April 8, 2019 • 1 Comment • ALPR, Bicycle, Congestion Pricing, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, REVENUE GENERATION, Ridesharing, Scooters, TOLL, TOLLING, Traffic Congestion, VMT Tax
By 2021, New York City will begin charging drivers who enter Manhattan below Central Park under the guise of congestion pricing. No one is surprised. City and state officials have been trying to make this happen for years. The rare alignment of views between the governor, the mayor, and the state legislature─each likely motivated by […]
Uber Court Decision, Algorithmic Bias, and the Union of Glass and Metal
• March 10, 2019 • 0 Comments • ATW, Bicycle, DRIVERLESS CARS, Facial Recognition, Ridesharing, SAFETY, Scooters, Technology
Uber Court Decision This past week, Yavapai County, Arizona Judge Sheila Sullivan Polk declared that Uber has no criminal liability for the death of Tempe pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in March 2018. Herzberg was the first known pedestrian fatality of a driverless car. Walking her bike across a dark street outside of a crosswalk, Herzberg was […]
New Rules on Scooters in Atlanta
From Jeff Shiver, Atlanta car accident attorney of Shiver Hamilton. Scooters became popular in Atlanta in the spring of 2017, and everyone has an opinion on them. Some praise them for clearing up the clogged streets of the city, while others see them as nuisances that clutter sidewalks and crowd pedestrians. In an attempt to […]
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