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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…

Business Trend. Electric Vehicle + Solar Energy = Battery Storage

Mercedes is parterning with Vivint Solar to provide battery storage at residences.

Autoblog | Mercedes-Benz partners with Vivint to sell solar energy storage

Anatomy of a bill. SB 2205. Self Driving Cars.

SB 2205 in the stealth like manner of an electric vehicle is on Saturday’s General State House Calendar. So, let’s take a peak at this legislative trend as it moves in Texas:

SB 2205 will:

allow for no humans in an operating self driving car
it loops in commerical self driving cars- bonjour garden center delivery services
the owner is considered the operator whether or not the owner is in the vehicle
if its operating on a highway it needs:
- insurance
- to comply with federal guidelines
- a…

3 Steps . 2 North Texas Cities Connecting Via High Speed Rail.

Dallas and Ft. Worth are moving forward with a high speed rail line connecting the two cities. This is how they’re doing it:

Creating a local government corporation with Dallas, an entity that would govern inter-city passenger rail service
The local government corporation would own and manage the rail line
The Local government corporation would then control creation, funding and actual construction of the line

The North Central Texas Council of Governments is coordinating the project.

It…