Category Archives: 2017 issue

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

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

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…

Lege Trend. Taxi Drivers in a Mountain State Want Ride Share to Do 5 things.

Taxi Drivers in Colorado Springs want ride share comapnies and their drivers to do the following:

  • Driver license fee of $97
  • background check
  • subject ride share to the same working hour restrictions as taxi drivers
  • same physical examinations that cab drivers have to undergo to drive
  • same geographic limitations for each (currently taxis have limitations but ride share does not)

Why do the taxi drivers want these 5 items? Taxi drivers say it is for parity. That they have to do these things…

Regulatory Trend. Self Driving Cars. Golden State Moves Rules for Fully Autonomous Vehicles. Read the Rules.

State: California

Newly posted rules are business friendly. Consumer advocates not as pleased. Here’s what the new rules would do:

  • Removes provision that companies  test autonomous vehicles for 1 year to fully deploy
  • Eases accident and autonomous vehicle-disengagement reporting requirements
  • No requirement for city approval for testing
  • Cities will have to be notified and companies will have to coordinate with cities

California’s March 2017 Autonomous Vehicle Rules Proposal

The Recorder…

Lege Trend. Only the Key Info. Silver State Ride Share Bill.

State: Nevada

What does the bill do?

  • quarterly reporting of the number of independent contractor drivers
  • $200 state business registration for their drivers
  • makes the ride share companies enforce the driver business registration requirement

Nevada Senate Bill 226 (2017)

Las Vegas Review Journal | Nevada Legislature pushing rideshare companies to ensure compliance with state law

R Street Institute. 5 Reasons to Stop Imposing Specific Background Checks on Ride Share.

  • Its a misconception that fingerprinting makes the taxi industry safer
    • its like all all sqaures are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares
  • Academic research doesn’t show an increase in crime since ride share become a thing
  • There’s data that indicates that crime went down among taxi drivers once ride share began.
    • the competition cleaned up the taxi drivers
  • Ride share drivers and passengers are tracked by GPS, that makes for one dumb criminal
  • The federal background check system is…