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Insurance Company Wants Nothing to Do With Toll Road Lawsuit

Dec

2018

Insurance Company Wants Nothing to Do With Toll Road Lawsuit

Government agencies and private individuals are calling out what they say are the deceptive practices of rental car companies with respect to toll road usage fees.

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Ohio Drivers Are Putting First Responders at Risk

Dec

2018

Emergency Vehicles

Ohio Drivers Are Putting First Responders at Risk

First responders are in danger on the side of the roads because many drivers refuse to slow down, move over and follow the law when they see emergency lights flashing.

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North Carolina Slams ATS for Unlicensed Engineering

Dec

2018

Red Light Cameras

North Carolina Slams ATS for Unlicensed Engineering

Red light camera provider American Traffic Solutions was cited Thursday for practicing engineering without a license in North Carolina.

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Here's What to Do if an Emergency Vehicle Pulls Behind You at a Red Light

Dec

2018

Emergency Vehicles

Here's What to Do if an Emergency Vehicle Pulls Behind You at a Red Light

Brenda, of Orlando, asked, "I'm stopped at a red light, with an emergency crew coming up behind me, what do I do?"

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Dec

2018

Surveillance

Is Your EZ Pass Spying on You?

EZ Pass offers cashless, open road tolling across 17 states. The catch? States using the system might also be watching you.

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Texas Lawmakers Move to Save Red Light Cameras

Nov

2018

Red Light Cameras

Texas Lawmakers Move to Save Red Light Cameras

Texas lawmakers are taking steps to keep newly re-elected Governor Greg Abbott from fulfilling a major campaign promise.

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Ford CEO Frankly Admits That the Car of the Future Is a Surveillance Device That You Pay to Spy on You

Nov

2018

Surveillance

Ford CEO Frankly Admits That the Car of the Future Is a Surveillance Device That You Pay to Spy on You

Hackett vowed to increase that share by using the leverage he could exert over his debtors to force them to let him spy on them.

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Cobb Renews School Bus Camera Contract, Expects to Make $10M in Fines

Nov

2018

School Bus Cameras

Cobb Renews School Bus Camera Contract, Expects to Make $10M in Fines

County commissioners voted at their meeting Tuesday to renew a five-year contract with the company that mails $300 tickets to drivers for not properly stopping at school buses when their stop arms are down.

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Here's the Secret Details of 200 Cities' License-Plate Tracking Programs

Nov

2018

License Plate Readers

Here's the Secret Details of 200 Cities' License-Plate Tracking Programs

All told, these programs account for 2.5 billion license plate scans, in which 95% of the vehicles scanned were not under suspicion of any wrongdoing. The data collected in each program was shared with an average of 160 other agencies.

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