Regulation
New Carolina Journal Online features
Brooke Conrad reports that Durham is considering a fee on plastic and paper bags at retail outlets. John Hood’s Daily Journal explains why North Carolina needs to focus on rural…
Road safety
Transportation
Red-light cameras and unintended consequences
The programs are sloppy. They can't pinpoint only those people who are running red lights.
Regulation
Regulators and self-driving cars
Austin Rose uses a National Review Online column to urge regulators to avoid an overreaction to the first major setback for self-driving cars. Tesla’s much-lauded “autopilot” feature is considered by…
Liberty
You Can Be a Hero
This morning, I pulled off to the side of the road and stopped for a fire truck with its signal blaring. It’s something people in Michigan did all the time.…
Regulation
Stossel lauds driverless cars
John Stossel explains in a Human Events column why he’s a fan of robot cars. That’s the big point — driverless cars are safer than we drivers are. Ninety-four percent…
Liberty
NTSB imagines a world where you’re ‘drunk’ with a BAC of .05
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has its own “Most Wanted” list, and on it the federal agency wishes to makes highways “safer” by making it ever more possible to create…
Liberty
Is a Car Coming? Consult the Manuals
School bus drivers are now providing hand signals to tell children when it is safe to cross a street. These are different from those of traffic cops or crossing guards.…
Liberty
Warm & Fuzzy Chi-i-i-i-i-i-ildren
I just got an email from Buncombe County Government telling me to look out for school buses. Really? Even I can see the big yellow thingies with their flashing halogen,…
Liberty
Why Pave?
Main Street Sylva will soon be torn up with bump-outs and left-turn-only lanes. The roads were too drivable. Should the traffic calming slow traffic too much, we shall need somebody…
Liberty
Detox
Digital billboards could pose a safety hazard, or is that a life safety hazard. Regardless, it is suspected that all potential harm may be alleviated by converting them to digital…
Liberty
Children: Your All-Purpose Reason
I’m confused. I thought the bumper stickers used to say, “School’s out, drive safely.” Now, we’re being told to drive safely because school’s in. I wish they would make up…
Liberty
“Southern Car Culture”
The local daily published a human interest story on “pedestrian rights.” “It’s not OK to mow people down in a crosswalk, even if you’ve got a light,” [Nona Martin] Stuck…