Photo credit: iStock.com/ABBPhoto In 2021, we discussed states regulating e-bikes, a topic that has continued into 2022 legislative sessions across the country as electric bicycles are becoming more popular and common on streets.  In 2019, [...]

Photo credit: iStock.com/DarthArt Catalytic converters are a major component of a vehicle’s emissions system and reduce the amount of pollution emitted by the vehicle.  Catalytic converters essentially can transform hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides [...]

Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image sources by julientromeur & TheDigitalArtist from Pixabay As we noted last year, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have automated driving systems that allow for self-driving, with little or no human input.  [...]

Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image sources by geralt and Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), speeding killed 9,478 people in 2019. NHTSA also reported that speeding had been [...]

Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image sources by qimono, Josy_Dom_Alexis, stux, & OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), 29 people in the United States die every day in [...]

Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image sources by Gerd Altmann & Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay  As DMGS noted previously, earmarks are making a return in the 117th Congress after a decade-long moratorium. Democrats in both chambers and House [...]

Digital image by Ryan Stevens; image source by Julien Tromeur from Pixabay  Autonomous vehicles have automated driving systems that allow for self-driving, with little or no human input.  While fully automated vehicles are not readily available at this [...]

Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image sources by PublicDomainPictures, Clker-Free-Vector-Images, & A life without animals is not worth living from Pixabay  According to the NHTSA, speeding killed 9,378 people in the United States in 2018.  Speeding was [...]

Digital collage by Ryan Stevens; image sources by David Mark & Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay  The sale of electric bicycles—or e-bikes—is expected to grow from 3.7 million in 2019 to 17 million by 2030, with potentially 10 million e-bikes [...]

Digital image by Ryan Stevens; image source by Thomas Ehrhardt from Pixabay  Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—more commonly known as drones—are precisely what their name suggests—crewless aerial vehicles that do not carry a human operator and instead are remotely [...]