May 2017 – InfoHive – Transportation

4 Regulatory Trends for Self Driving Cars

How statutes assign liability for an accident involving a self driving?
Are manufacturers liable or the software engineers or both?
Do local governments need to cange stop lights and traffic movement for improved self driving car efficiency?
If self driving cars improve transportation times, as science indicates they do, will the local and state economy benefit?

Findlaw | Technologist | Can One Driverless Car Change Auto Liability?

Lege Trend Fruition. What happened and didn't happen with high speed rail in Texas Legislature?

Bills to stop high speed rail: No
High Speed Rail Specific Bills: 2
- Require reimbursement to local law enforcement for high speed rail security
- No State Funding for high speed rail

Response to the legislative action from high speed rail opponents:

Even if no bill stopped high speed rail,
The high speed rail porject does not have adewuate funding nor explicit eminent domain authority

Response to legislative action from high speed rail:

““As the Texas Legislature completes its…

Pro-Con Arguments Used in the East to Support Direct Auto Sales + A compromise deal

State: Connecticut

What are the arguments supporting direct sales of vehicles in Connecticut?

Opposing direct sales shows an opposition to technology and dissaudes tech start ups from
Denying Connecticut residents the ability to buy directly in Connecticut costs Connecticut jobs and revenue
neighboring state Massachusetts is getting the sales and the revenue

What are the arguments opposing direct sales in Connecticut?

job losses
job loss argument is maintained by auto dealers and…

State Senate Unanimously Votes Against Mileage Tax

State: Connecticut

Is the opposition uniform and bipartisan? yes

What triggered it? A federal subsidy to study a switch to mileage based taxation

What warning are some legislators offering? If there isn’t a transportation funding solution soon, the state moves closer to more tolls on highways

Connecticut Post | Senate votes to prohibit ‘mileage’ tax

Procurement Trend. State Department of Transportation Wants to Connect All Cars in a Work Zone

Where is this happening? Michigan

What company is the private partner with Michigan? 3M

What’s the collaborative goal? “To implement connected vehicle technology on a stretch of work zone on Interstate 75 that is more than 3 miles long”

What is 3M bringing to the table in this partnership?

♦ Advanced all-weather lane markings

♦ Retroreflective signs with smart sign technology

♦ Dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) devices for vehicle-to-infrastructure communications

♦…

Business Trend. Company Sponsors State Department of Transportation Road Side Assistance Program

State: Connecticut

Company: State Farm

What does the partnership entail?

Renaming the agency’s Connecticut Highway Assistance Motorist Patrol (CHAMP) to the CTDOT State Farm Safety Patrol

Is this new for State Farm? No, it has Partnerships in 15 other states, including:Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania

Benefit to the state: State can continue providing the same…

Legal Trend. Public Transportation Gathers Data on Riders. Riders Sue. 3 Pieces of Informed Intel for Ordinance and Bill Writing.

Where: Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay Area

The data privacy issue: Plaintiffs allege that BART captures riders unique mobile identification numbers and locations

What state law is in play? California’s advertising and privacy laws, plus the Cellular Communications Interception Act, which the state Legislature passed in 2015 to protect against unreasonable searches that could violate the Fourth Amendment

The Recorder | Privacy Lawyers Accuse BART of Snooping on…

Lege Trend. Big Trucks. Bigger Loads. 5 Key Points from the Agreed to Bill

SB 1524 creates this 5 point regulatory scheme:

$6,000 annual fee for permits allowing heavier truck weights for containerized imports and exports, limited to designated corridors within 30 miles of a port
50% of the revenue goes to the state highway funds
30% to counties with the routes
16% to municipalities
4% to the Texas Department of Transportation for administration.

informed:intel April 25, 2017:

SB 1524 allows for heavier loads on big trucks when:

$5000 annual permit is…