On the roads of the future, it's possible that speeding tickets will be doled out by new automated law enforcement systems instead of by police officers in patrol cars.
Systems now being developed by the federal government to handle vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications in an upcoming connected-car era may have the capability to more precisely track the locations and speeds of individual motorists.
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Who gets access to the info in your vehicle’s event data recorder? A black box, formally known as an event data recorder (EDR), and informally known as a narc-in-the-box, logs a variety of data regarding the operation of the vehicle in which it's installed.
The good news is that EDRs do not (yet) track your location, nor do they beam real-time information to feds, cops, carmakers, or mothers-in-law. That's what your smartphone is for.
The national average price of regular unleaded, now at $3.38 a gallon, is down 8 percent from the end of June. Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at GasBuddy.com, thinks this year will bring the cheapest autumn gasoline prices since 2010.
Last year drivers spent $40 billion at the pump in September, and Kloza thinks that bill will be at least $2 billion lower in 2014. The savings at the pump should help stimulate consumer spending in other parts of the economy.
Do you know that your fleet may be working harder than needed, and getting less done than possible? This could be the case if you have not adopted GPS tracking software to your fleet operations. Utilizing a GPS tracking solution, like GPS Insight, can help your fleet be more productive in less time by automating processes that use to make fleet management more time consuming than necessary.
This expert fleet manager credits NAFA's Certified Automotive Fleet Manager program with helping to advance his career -- and says that the program has become more important to the industry than ever before.