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New Jersey: Camera Town Caught with Short Yellow Times
The first southern New Jersey municipality to issue a red light camera ticket admitted last week that it issued 12,000 tickets worth $1 million at an intersection where the yellow light time was...
View ArticleRenault Suspends Executives Over EV Industrial Espionage
Automotive News [sub] reports that three Renault executives, including one who works for the automaker’s electric vehicle development program, have been suspended without pay pending an industrial...
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Colorado: Accident Data Ignored in Red Light Camera Expansion
Local activists are upset that Aurora, Colorado is doubling the size of its red light camera program even though the existing devices have failed to produce a demonstrable safety benefit. According to...
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US Appeals Court Overturns Conviction Based on a Lie
The US Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit on Monday overturned the sentence of a man convicted based on questionable testimony about a traffic stop. Despite clear evidence that a police officer...
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South Carolina: Internal Emails Reveal Speed Trap Profit Motive
An ongoing federal lawsuit against the speed trap town of Ridgeland, South Carolina uncovered internal emails last month that shed light on the motivation behind the state’s only photo enforcement...
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California Court Denies Public Trial for Camera Tickets
Members of the public are not allowed to attend red light camera trials and other proceedings at the Superior Court of California courthouse in the city of Corona. For the past several weeks a policy...
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California Court: Turn Signal Unnecessary When Nobody is Looking
California drivers do not need to use their turn signals if no other car is nearby according to a ruling handed down Friday by the state’s second-highest court. A three-judge panel of the court of...
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California Considers Bill to Shorten Yellow Times
The amount of yellow warning time at California intersections would drop along with speed limits under a bill being considered by the state legislature. The Senate Transportation Committee will hold a...
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IIHS Study Loves Red Light Cameras, Says Americans Do Too
The controversy over red light cameras, once relegated to websites like TTAC, thenewspaper.com, motorists.org and highwayrobbery.net, is hitting the mainstream media thanks to a new study by the IIHS...
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Washington: City Sued for Blocking Anti-Camera Referendum
Opponents of red light cameras and speed cameras are taking the offensive against city councils and camera vendors who have been taking extreme measures to keep the issue of automated ticketing off...
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GHSA Surveys The Science Of Distraction, Finds 15%-30% Of Crashes Involve...
The Governor’s Highway Safety Association has reviewed a number of studies on distracted driving, and its report [PDF here] shows a number of disturbing findings. A few of the highlights (or is that...
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Texas Appeals Court: Driver Has No Right to Dashcam Video
Drivers have no recourse if police say the tape from a dashboard-mounted video camera is not available, according to a ruling Wednesday from the Texas Court of Appeals. Mark Lee Martin wanted to...
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Would-Be Civic Thief Thwarted By Hidden Kill Switch, $21 In Junkyard Parts...
Having spent most of my driving years in car-theft-prone neighborhoods in California and preferring the please-steal-me Honda Civic as my daily driver of choice, I learned many years ago that a secret...
View ArticleCourts Uphold Right To Video Police, New Mexico Officer Makes Us Wonder If We...
Boston.com’s On Liberty blog reports that the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the right of citizens to video police officers, ruling in part that changes in technology and society have made the...
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North Dakota Supreme Court: Drivers Not Searched Under Auto Exception
Just because police can search an automobile does not mean they can search its driver, according to an August 15 ruling by the North Dakota Supreme Court. The finding was applied in the case of Kevin...
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Ask The Best And Brightest: Is The Supercar’s Cool Wearing Off?
The arrest of 13 young supercar drivers near Vancouver, British Columbia is not necessarily the sort of piece I’d jump all over right away, but it did inspire quite a number of emails from readers...
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Missouri: Lawsuit Challenges Red Light Camera Legality, Astroturf
Lawyers for motorists in Missouri are looking to capitalize on recent discoveries regarding deceptive marketing campaigns orchestrated by red light camera companies. On Wednesday, The Simon Law Firm...
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How To Tell If A Red Light Camera Is A Safety Tool Or A Dangerous Form Of...
[Editor's note: The following was sent to us by Donald Sawicki of Copradar.com, a site where Mr Sawicki offers insight and literature on radar and red light camera safety issues to victims, defendants...
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Brazil Investigating High Car Prices
Whenever our man in Brazil, Marcello DeVasconcellos reports on new model introductions in his home country, TTAC’s American audience is consistently blown away by the prices commanded by new cars...
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Costa Rica Unveils Most Burdensome Speed Camera Program Yet
Since September 8, motorists in Costa Rica have been racking up speed camera fines worth 308,295 colones (US $600) each. Sixteen speed cameras have been flashing around the city of San Jose at a rate...
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