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The Company: HopSkipDrive
The company’s objective: To be the Uber for kids and requires secret passwords for drives and the kids are followed via GPS
Founders: 3 mothers who needed to get their kids to soccer, football, ballet etc…
How it differs from ride share: it schedules rides and is not on demand ride service
The County: Freestone County
The County Commissioner vote: Unanimous
The requirements on high speed rail:
Freestone COunty Judge Grant view: “the Surface Transportation Board states that the Federal Government lacks the authority to grant eminent domain power to Texas Central Railway”
Freestone County Times | County Adopts Budget, Sets Tax Rate,…
KP-0111 details the power of vehicle policies by commissioners courts. A Commissioners court may generally adopt vehicle tracking policies that:
Which cities impost a transportation utility fee? Austin, Bryan, Corpus Christi
How is the transportation utility fee imposed? On a water bill
What does the transportation utility fee mitigate? Lessens reliance on on general funds for roadway maintenance and improvements
What city is considering it & how much revenue is anticpated? Killeen anticipates $4.9million in revenue.
The Final Vote by Killeen? Killeen is a solid NO on transportation utility fee
Massachusettes ride share legislation will tax ride share transactions via app.
What you need to know about taxing an app:
What companies are driving the push for driverless big trucks?
Why is the big truck industry moving fast toward driverless semis? Constant shortage of truck drivers
What incremental changes have occurred in trucking? Much like driver aided features in consumer cars, trucking has added “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems”
Which company announced its promise to deliver driverless cars within 5 years? Ford
The target audience for Ford’s driverless cars? Commercial ride share
How will Ford’s cars differ from current self driving cars?
New York Times | Ford Promises Fleets of Driverless Cars Within Five Years
What entity produced a ride share report? Texas A&M Transportatin Institute
What are the report highlights?
Where: Pittsburgh
When: August 2016
Who: Uber and Volvo, the wonder twins, have joined forces to form of self driving ride-share
Why Pittsburgh?