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Showing posts with label motor vehicle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label motor vehicle. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

R.I. classifies e-bikes, limits bike path access, but pedestrians remain at risk without enforcement

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Kudos to Rhode Island legislators who in 2024 limited state bicycle trails and paths to a single class of e-bikes. The 2024 law, H7713 , chi...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Consumer-unfriendly designs resist right to repair

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The nation is in the grip of a battle over right-to-repair laws. I'm a fan. Right to repair ensures consumers' ability to repair, or...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Denying public access to crash data, did state agency prioritize fear of litigation over public safety?

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Map of bicycle and pedestrian accidents in Providence, R.I., 2009-17, from Providence Great Streets Master Plan (2020) Rhode Island authori...
Monday, September 4, 2023

Federal law shields car dealer in courtesy-car accident

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CC0 by Open Grid Scheduler via Flickr A car dealership could not be held vicariously liable to a pedestrian struck by a courtesy vehicle, t...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

Horn-blowing law survives First Amendment challenge

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Image by allispossible.org.uk CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr A citation for unreasonable horn-blowing is not defective under the First Amendmen...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

'Right to repair' of Mass. Question 1 would close loophole, aid consumers; industry opposition misleads

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Teen mechanic in Philippines, 2014 (Rojessa Tiamson-Saceda, USAID, via Pixnio CC0 ) Massachusetts has a right-to-repair initiative ( Questi...