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The states that are moving to a fee based transportation funding system:
States considering a fee on electric, hybrid cars to offset gas tax reductions:
States that increased registration fees on electric or hybrid cars:
The Court: The European Union’s highest court
The issue- is ride share a platform or a transportation company? Legal pundits expect the court to rule that ride share companies are transportation companies.
What will be the impact? Stricter regulations apply to transportation companies
Why are pundits now paying attention to this? “An influential advisor to the court, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, has published his opinion on the case” and that opinion is not good for ride share.
A legal fight between Texas Central Rail and Grimes County has created an injuntion to ” permanently enjoin [Texas Central Rail] from performing surveys or other studies which damage, alter or impair county maintained rights of way,”
What Grimes County says it does: prevents Texas Central Rail from exercising precondemantion surveys & Texas Central Rail does not have eminent domain authority
What Texas Central Rail says it does: Surveys will continue, as they have, and no damage will be…
State: Colorado
The 2 competing transportation funding mechanisms:
The Compromise:
State: California
What’s an Idaho stop for a bicycle? Its what the rest of the world calls a California stop. A bicylce can roll through a red light, treating the stop or red light as a yield.
Have other states allowed for an Idaho stop? yes, Idaho
What support is there for allowing the roll through stop for bicycles?
California’s Assembly…
The trend bester: Self driving car garages for mechanics, not parking
The partnership opportunities abound.
Tech Crunch | Intel’s new Silicon Valley Autonomous Driving Garage is primed for partnerships
The state: California
The proposed rules to tax space income:
“gross receipts shall be attributed to this state based upon a mileage factor, weighted at 80 percent, and a departure factor, weighted at 20 percent ” California’s Porposed Space Travel Tax
Bloomberg | New Tax Frontier: California Offers Space Flight Rules
California is revising its driverless car regulations. Read the proposed regulations.
California’s proposed driverless car regulations prompted the following concerns:
A loophole in New York’s statewide ride share law allows Level 1 sex offenders to be ride share drivers.
The loophole is triggered by this statutory reference: U.S. Department of Justice National Sex Offender Public Website. Any person listed on this website cannot serve as a driver. However, this list does not include level 1 sex offenders.
A bill has been filed to close this loophole.
News 12 Long Island | Loophole could allow sex offenders to work for Uber, Lyft
Are there data security regulations on cars? Not so much
Is there any group proposing regulations? Yes, National Institute of Standards and Technology, a nonregulatory agency under the Department of Commerce
The Hill | Cyber official: Feds, companies need better dialogue on security of self-driving cars