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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…
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
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
The litany of regulatory questions for regulating flying cars:
It is a new frontier with no regulations.
The Vermont Senate added amendments to a ride share bill that turned a ride share cindustry bill into a bill that is opposed by ride share.
What amendments were added to derail ride share?
State: New York
How did New York manage to legalize self driving cars in a budget:
The Governor…