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Ahead of the TREND. Regulating Flying Cars. 8 Pieces of Intel.

The litany of regulatory questions for regulating flying cars:

Who can operate one?
How many passengers are allowed inside?
Can flying cars fly over roads?
What kinds of safety measures must be included, and critically, can the vehicles be manufactured for commercial use?
Are they treated like drones?
Are they ultralight aircrafts?
What are the safety standards?
Can they be used commercially?

It is a new frontier with no regulations.

The Recorder | Who Will Regulate Flying Cars?

Hyperloop test track finished + proposed Texas Route business benefit.

The finished hyperloop test track: DeveLop test track, the 1,640-foot long full-scale testing site

The proposed Texas route: Colorado and Texas will be brought together with a Cheyenne to Houston route

The Texas business benefit: The route will be useful for the military, industrial and aerospace industries

Tech Crunch | Hyperloop One completes Vegas test track tube, reveals 11 proposed U.S. routes

Business Trend. Self Driving Big Trucks with Zero Emissions.

Company: Einride, a Swedish start up

The product: ‘T-Pod’ , an electric vehicle with self-driving capabilities that can carry 15 pallets of goods 124 miles while producing zero emissions.

What would be th eimpact to roads? T Pod total weight of 20 tons when loaded down fully with cargo, which is smaller than most transport trucks

Tech Crunch | Einride’s electric self-driving T-pod is a new kind of freight transport vehicle

Business Trend. Meet Policy Trend. Self Driving Car Crash. 2 Lessons.

The statement from police said the car’s view was blocked.
- Don’t self driving cars use sensors? Can you block the radar or sonor or whatever it might use?
- How do rules and laws address blind spots in self driving cars?
The intersection was one of “the hardest decision making” for self driving cars
- a witness said the self driving car sped up to beat the light
- how can rules or laws handle these hard driving decisions?

Wallstreet Journal | Uber Self-Driving Car Crash Detailed in Police…

New Trend. The Sale of Connected Cars

What concerns are there with selling a connected car?

The car may still contain your data that is accessible for the new owner
The previous owners may be able to access the car

USA Today | Used connected cars may still be accessible by past owners

5 Ways Self Driving Cars Help Local Governments.

Self driving cars estimated to help local governments by:

Adding an “excess of half a trillion dollars” via Morgan Stanley’s Autonomous Vehicles & Municipal Bonds
Creating more efficient roadway use
Dramatically reducing parking garages and parking spaces
Parking structures can be redeveloped to higher value developments, increasing property tax revenue
Increased safety will reduce emergency room visits with the reduction in traffic accidents

There will be some revneue offsets for local…