Showing posts with label vehicles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vehicles. Show all posts

Brad Tuttle: End Of The Road For Speed Traps?

Low speed limits make roads less safe.        Politicians, driver advocacy groups and even the police are trying to outlaw speed traps, not only because they’re annoying, but because when speed limits are too low, roads become more — not less — dangerous. Most drivers understand the need for speed limits. And yet they loathe speed traps       ... MORE

NCPA Research: Green Cars Are Not So Clean After All

Green vehicles are polluting and wasteful. Electric and hybrid cars were lauded as a cure for climate change and carbon emissions. Though electric vehicles are zero emissions, only 50,000 were sold in 2012 -- well short of the number needed to achieve President Obama's goal of 1 million green cars on the road by 2015. While    ... MORE

Media Fabricates Test To Demonize Pot And Driving

by Michael Suede.  Fox News Denver recently did a story on the effects of driving high on cannabis.  In the process of doing the story, they had people drive a video game simulator to test the effects of impairment. However, Fox rigged the driving simulator to force crashes so they could bias the story against cannabis users. One of the test participants  ... MORE

David Rosen: The Police Know Where You're Driving

Cameras focused on collecting license plate data.  Departments have already begun deploying Orwellian license-plate reading technologies across the country. A building at 55 Broadway, in lower Manhattan, is home to the Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center, the locus of the New York Police Department’s massive intelligence-gathering  ... MORE

There Is A Snitch Riding In Your Car With You

Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns.   Many motorists don’t know it, but it’s likely that every time they get behind the wheel, there’s a snitch along for the ride. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday proposed long-delayed regulations requiring auto manufacturers to include event data recorders — better known as “black boxes” —   ... MORE

Peter Wilson: The Progressive War On Parking

Putting the squeeze on private transportation.      Mark your calendars: September 21 is international PARK(ing) Day, described as "annual open-source global event where citizens, artists and activists collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spaces into 'PARK(ing)' spaces."  Get it?  The place you "park" your car becomes a "park."  It's a      ... MORE

Washington Times: Saving Gas, Wasting Lives

Costly consequences of the new fuel-efficiency standards. President Obama’s latest fuel-efficiency decree means consumers will have to turn in their SUVs and pickup trucks for tiny, European-style city cars within the next few years. It’s also likely to produce another, more costly consequence: a lot more death on America’s roads. Last month,  ... MORE

Daniel Greenfield: Why You Will Never Buy A Car Again

Obama cars are coming. If you’ve been waiting around to buy a new car, better hurry up. If Obama gets his way, the only car you will be able to buy will be a small hybrid cube and will cost more than you can afford. The Obama administration has finalized new fuel economy rules that will require the fleet-wide average of new cars and trucks sold in ... MORE