Monthly Archives: March 2017

Business Trend. Meet Policy Trend. Self Driving Car Crash. 2 Lessons.

  • The statement from police said the car’s view was blocked. 
    • Don’t self driving cars use sensors? Can you block the radar or sonor or whatever it might use?
    • How do rules and laws address blind spots in self driving cars?
  • The intersection was one of “the hardest decision making” for self driving cars
    • a witness said the self driving car sped up to beat the light
    • how can rules or laws handle these hard driving decisions?

Wallstreet Journal | Uber Self-Driving Car Crash Detailed in Police…

How did Hawaii Keep Uber & Lyft Out of certain areas?

2 Ways Hawaii is keeping Uber and Lyft out of its airports:

  • By requiring that only commercial vehicles that have transportation-charter party permits can provide rides
  • Requiring all cars to have transponders to track how many vehicles are available at airports 

Pacific Business Journal | Commercial vehicle protocols keeping Uber and Lyft from operating at Hawaii’s airports

Business Trend. Ride Share for non-emergency ambulance rides.

The companies: American Medical Response & Lyft

How many states are included in the non-emergency ride share program: 42

Can medical providers initiate riders too? Yes, hospitals, clinics and health plans can request and pay for rides for patients

healthcare dive | AMR teams up with Lyft for nonemergency patient rides

Envision health care | American Medical Response and Lyft Announce Partnership

Lege Trend. All Self Driving Cars Must Be Zero Emissions. Also Known As–Can a Snail Move Faster than Zero Emission Cars?

Why does California need all self driving cars to be zero emissions?  California must cut greenhouse gases 40% by 2030

A handy side effect of a bill like this? to help the zero emmission car industry, whose sales have flatlined at 3% of market share in California 

Is this just  a California thing? No, Massachusettes is proposing the same

The Recorder | Calif. Lawmaker Pushes Zero-Emission Driverless Vehicles

Caliornia SB 802 (2017)

Local TREND. Solve Transportation via Tech.

Examples of cities solving transportation woes with tech:

  • France’s cities are using smart trains
  • Los Angeles is using smart meters
  • Toronto is also turning to Internet of Things (IoT) technology to ease its traffic congestion 
  • New Delhi is  partnering with Google India’s transit unit to “provide free train schedule and route information to commuters through mobile devices with Google Maps
 
 

What does Insurance look like for Driverless Cars?

What data is necessary for insurance rates for driverless cars? testimony from State Farm to the California Senate Insurnace Committee: Carriers need “data that shows driverless-car technology “actually does what it advertises it’s doing.”

What entities oppose the release of driverless car data?  car manufacturers that fear the release, potentially through a hack, of trade secrets

The Recorder | Insurance Carriers Say Driverless Car Data Is Key to Rates

TAMU TTI rethinking intersections. 3 key pieces of info to be informed:

Where do you need to go to study the best intersections for bikes and pedestrians? The Netherlands

What’s different about these intersections?

  • Cars top further back
  • Pedestrians and bikes are more in view for drivers
  • Bicyclists make left turns after fully crossing the intersection

Will this encrouage bicyclists in Texas to follow the rules of the road? ….

KUT | Texas A&M Showcases Dutch Bike Safety Lanes

TAMU TTI | Senate Committee Focuses on Right-Angle Intersection Crashes, TTI…

What does a ride share bill look like in a state where no ride share operates? Clean Slate.

State :  Alaska

Legislation: Senate Bill 14 and House Bill 132

What do these bills do?

  • exempt drivers from state workers comp laws
  • state regulation, with no local regulation, for ride share
  • insurance while drivers are driving ride share passengers
  • require zero tolerance policies for drigs and alcohol for drivers
  • liability insurance requirements
  • local and national criminal background check for drivers

Who are the supporters, besides ride share?

  • American insurance association
  • National…