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Virginia Law Disregarded
Rural Free Delivery, Laceyville, Pennsylvaniaphoto courtesy Library of Congress RICHMOND, Virginia, July 4, 1906.—The new law regulating the speed and operation of automobiles in Virginia is already...
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Motor-Cars in the City
Hupmobile in New Zealand, c. 1910.photo courtesy National Library of New Zealand The law afoul of which Mr. Brown fell was an old one. Under §282 of the By-Law 1 of the City Council of Christchurch,...
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The Unpaving of America
A San Francisco dealership, sans treesphoto courtesy San Francisco Public Library From our viewpoint in lightly roaded Northern New England, issues confronted by major urban areas are sometimes opaque....
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Payback
General Motors Company Chairman Edward E. Whitacre Jr. at the GM World Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, Thursday, July 9, 2009.photo courtesy General Motors Three weeks ago, we were all up in GM’s...
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Dealers vs. DOD
Senator Sam Brownbackphoto courtesy United States Senate Some stories have no clear winners. When you have 17,000 small businesses on one side, and 5.5 million active-duty soldiers on the other, you...
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Drive slow, young man, drive slow
Judge Daniel P. Andersonphoto courtesy Wisconsin State Courts In most communities, any driving behavior that deviates from the norm is considered sufficient evidence for a traffic stop. So when...
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July 9: Our Day
Bill Sponsor Senator Jon Tester (D MT) greases a tractor during the harvest on his farm near Big Sandy.photo courtesy United States Senate Even when they’re working for us, we’re not necessarily fans...
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Dealer exemption stands
Washington-Cadillac Co., Washington, D.C.photo courtesy Library of Congress It’s looking increasingly like the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection will not have the authority to regulate auto...
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What price safety?
Near-crash/crash event data recorderphoto courtesy RITA/DOT Section 107 of the proposed Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 requires NHTSA “to promulgate a rule that requires that all vehicles be equipped...
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Nuisances
Buffalo Bill in his White steamer, smugly not emitting smoke, 1908.photo courtesy NYP As soon as there were enough automobiles on the street to count, Concerned Citizens started thinking of them as a...
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Most Wanted
NTSB sealphoto courtesy NTSB.gov NTSB, the National Transportation Safety Board, may occasionally interfere in our lives in unpleasant ways, but thanks to their advocacy for safety issues, no one can...
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Missouri helps Ford
Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, 55th Governor of Missouriphoto courtesy State of Missouri The economically hard-hit communities and states of the Ozarks have been particularly aggressive in protecting all...
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Tax-Free Pleasure
Chicago Auto Show, 1908photo courtesy Chicago Auto Show In the early days of the automobile, it wasn’t yet clear that Detroit would reign supreme, and Chicago and New York both had thriving industries....
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Smoking section
Man smoking a pipe standing in front of an automobilephoto courtesy Theodor Horydczak Collection, Library of Congress The only thing about a proposed law in New York State that would ban smoking in...
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Smoking section
Man smoking a pipe standing in front of an automobile, from the Theodor Horydczak Collection, Library of Congress The only thing about a proposed law in New York State that would ban smoking in cars...
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Oversight, schmoversight
photo courtesy Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers The “Toyota Bill,” HR 5381 in the House and S 3302 in the Senate, measures that would grant the DOT sweeping new enforcement powers, is losing its...
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Oversight, schmoversight
The “Toyota Bill,” HR 5381 in the House and S 3302 in the Senate, measures that would grant the DOT sweeping new enforcement powers, is losing its teeth. We shouldn’t be surprised that Congress acts...
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Massachusetts closes in on Right to Repair
Four men with two automobiles outside of garage of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston, courtesy Library of Congress Right to Repair laws give what has...
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Promoting plug-ins: $4,000,000 per car
Sears XDH-1 electric car, 1977. Photo courtesy Los Angeles Public Library It’d be nice if, when we all agreed there was a problem that we could also all agree on what to do about it. Like oil. We don’t...
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Mass Right to Repair fails
Massachusetts technicians attempt to pull a code. Photo courtesy Library of Congress Two weeks ago, we had a heated debate on the possible benefits of what looked like it would be the nation’s first...
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