Showing posts with label automobile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label automobile. Show all posts

Gov't Wants Cars To Broadcast Location, Direction & Speed

by Terrence Jeffrey.  Big Brother wants to know your every move. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Department of Transportation, published last week an "advanced notice of proposed rulemaking" on "vehicle-to-vehicle communications." What NHTSA is proposing could begin a transformation in the American       ... MORE

California Cell Phone Ban Fails To Reduce Accidents

But it does raise revenue for politicians to spend.     Six years ago, California began enforcing a ban on the use of cell phones behind the wheel. In the latest edition of the journal Transportation Research, a study found that issuing tens of thousands of $170 tickets each year for this new offense failed to yield measurable safety benefits.    ... MORE

Flash! Drivers Have Free Speech Rights

by Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff.     The right to tip off other motorists to police. Here’s something we’d like to see law enforcement officers add to their “I-have-bigger-things-to-worry-about” list: drivers who alert fellow motorists to police radar by flashing their lights. Ticketing someone for a headlight heads-up is not only petty   ... MORE

Taxi Unions Bribe Government To Destroy Competition

by Jason Mick.    Crony capitalism 1 Consumers 0. The U.S. isn't exactly a "free market" at times, with outright bribery -- condoned by the U.S. judicial system -- or collusive public-private cartels leading to some products and services being banned from the market.  Just ask Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) whose electric vehicles have been banned     ... MORE

Ann McFeatters: Those Revenue-Generating Traffic Cams

Something we all can hate.        Finally. An issue that unites both rabid Democrats and rabid Republicans: Those demon traffic cameras. Not too long ago in the otherwise very nice state of Ohio, on a quiet Sunday morning with no other cars in sight, I made a right-turn-on-red maneuver after slowing to 2 mph. A traffic camera caught me. A few weeks  ... MORE

John W Whitehead: Putting Big Brother In The Driver's Seat

V2V transmitters, black boxes & drones.       Time to buckle up your seatbelts, folks. You’re in for a bumpy ride. We’re hurtling down a one-way road toward the Police State at mind-boggling speeds, the terrain is getting more treacherous by the minute, and we’ve passed all the exit ramps. From this point forward, there is no turning    ... MORE

Is There Anything More American Than Bob Dylan Doing a Patriotic Super Bowl Ad for a Foreign-Owned Carmaker?

by Nick Gillespie.      Absolutely not. And that's kind of wonderful. Bob Dylan's controversial Super Bowl ad for Chrysler opens with the Maestro himself asking, “Is there anything more American than America?” It’s the sort of koan-like, WTF riddle that defines his most memorable music. Dylan is the master of the rhetorical question, whether       ... MORE

Jacob Kornblush: Blazio's New Ploy To Fleece Citizens

NYC speeding cameras gain revenue bonanza.  The profitability of the police state. Nearly a thousand drivers have been ticketed by the city’s speed cameras since Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” traffic initiative took effect two weeks ago. The Department of Transportation tells NY1 it has already issued 900 speeding violations since       ... MORE

Radar Detectors for Speeding & Camera Protection

The pretense of safety and the pursuit of revenue.         As budgets are still stretched states are always looking for new ways to raise additional revenue.  Red Light cameras are popping up all across the country and new photo radar cameras are spreading to capture your every move on the roads.  While all deployed as additional safety      ... MORE

Your CAR Could Be 'Spying' On You!

Gathering data, tracking: the new vehicle realities.       As if Facebook, Google and the federal government squirreling away your personal information wasn't enough, now it seems your car could also be spying on you. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, several major automakers and GPS        ... MORE

Driver Arrested; Has Compartment That Could Store Drugs

Robby Soave reports on drug war tyranny.      Civil libertarians are criticizing Ohio police for arresting a driver because his car contained a compartment that could theoretically store illegal drugs, though no drugs were found at that time. The driver, 30-year-old Norman Gurley of Michigan, was pulled over for speeding. A highway patrolman   ... MORE

John R. Quain: On Alert For Red-Light Cameras

Strike back against intrusive revenue generators.      Banished by voters in Houston, facing legal challenges in Missouri and working undercover in New York City, traffic-monitoring cameras, promoted as accident-reducing tools by safety advocates and decried as intrusive revenue-generators by opponents, are nothing if not            ... MORE

California Taxpayers To Subsidize Green Cars For The Poor

by Steven Greenhut.     One longtime critic of federal transportation spending once concluded that it would be less expensive for the government to buy every new transit rider a Jaguar XJ8 than it would be to build certain new rail systems. Unfortunately, California officials may not have realized that the idea of buying people new cars        ... MORE

Proposal Bans Snacking, Smoking Behind The Wheel

Nannied in New Jersey.     Drivers could possibly be pulled over for snacking, smoking or putting on make-up behind the wheel under a bill that has been advanced in the New Jersey Assembly. The proposed law would fine drivers found to “engage in any activity unrelated to the operation of a motor vehicle in a manner that that interferes  ... MORE

Driver Arrested For Secret Compartment Full Of Nothing

by Scott Shackford. Norman Gurley, 30, is facing drug-related charges in Lorain County, Ohio, despite the fact that state troopers did not actually find any drugs in his possession. Ohio passed a law in 2012 making it a felony to alter a vehicle to add a secret compartment with the “intent” of using it to conceal drugs for trafficking. Gurley is the ... MORE

Bryan Hyde: Are Speed Limits For Safety Or Revenue

Red, white and blue are supposedly the colors of freedom. But that’s not what most of us feel when we see them strobing in our rear-view mirror. Most drivers, no matter how conscientious, experience a type of anxiety when they spot a police car while driving. This is particularly true when a police car is following us. It’s not that  ... MORE

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EU Scheming To Install Speed-Limiting Devices On Cars

Nannys seek to flex muscles.     As the deeply unpopular Brussels-based European Union continues to usurp unprecedented powers over citizens and formerly sovereign national governments, another example of the EU gone wild just hit the headlines. Under its latest controversial scheming, supposedly aimed at improving “road safety,” all     ... MORE