Over the past few years, I have written several columns on “Intelligent Speed Assistance” and how it can be used to reduce speeding almost exponentially. A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety study prepared by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center provides a road map ...

Over the past few years, I have written several articles on “Intelligent Speed Assistance” (ISA) and how it can be used to reduce speeding almost exponentially. A new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study prepared by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center ...

If you are a regular reader of these weekly articles, you might have picked up on my call for vehicle and traffic laws (VTL) to be set nationally, not by each state. There’s a lot to be said for “states’ rights,” but, with such a mobile nation, VTL should be the same in every state. ...

Seat belt laws vary widely throughout the 50 states and the District of Columbia. While New Hampshire is alone in not requiring belt use in the front seat, it is one of 16 states that don’t require adult passengers to buckle up in the rear. New York state has required all people, including ...

This column isn’t about vehicle and traffic law or even traffic safety. It’s about the 1,000 weekly column I have written over the past 19-plus years. What began as a one-year commitment to the Franklin County Traffic Safety Board (TSB), of which I was and still am a member, has turned ...

When driving, we often want to communicate with another driver, not just to talk, but to tell them what we think he/she did wrong. Or maybe we want to advise them how to make driving less stressful. It’s a good thing we can’t talk to other drivers. It might result in an argument and could ...