Category Archives: legislative trend

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…

How did Hawaii Keep Uber & Lyft Out of certain areas?

2 Ways Hawaii is keeping Uber and Lyft out of its airports:

  • By requiring that only commercial vehicles that have transportation-charter party permits can provide rides
  • Requiring all cars to have transponders to track how many vehicles are available at airports 

Pacific Business Journal | Commercial vehicle protocols keeping Uber and Lyft from operating at Hawaii’s airports

Lege Trend. All Self Driving Cars Must Be Zero Emissions. Also Known As–Can a Snail Move Faster than Zero Emission Cars?

Why does California need all self driving cars to be zero emissions?  California must cut greenhouse gases 40% by 2030

A handy side effect of a bill like this? to help the zero emmission car industry, whose sales have flatlined at 3% of market share in California 

Is this just  a California thing? No, Massachusettes is proposing the same

The Recorder | Calif. Lawmaker Pushes Zero-Emission Driverless Vehicles

Caliornia SB 802 (2017)

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…

Activist Trend. Transportation Funding Bill Sparks No Tax Activists

State: Colorado

The transportation funding gap: 

The proposed funding mechanism: Asking for voter approval for a sales tax to fund $3.5 billion for transportation bond funding via an increase of 0.62%

The activists: Americans for Prosperity 

The activist target: 4 Republican legislators

The Response from the Denver Editorial Board: Sen. Kevin Grantham is a statesman for standing up for Colorado transportation

Colorado Statesman | Americans for Prosperity targets four GOP senators over…

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…