Category Archives: legislative trend

TREND. Ride Share your own car. Let someone else Drive. +1 Car Maker.

The car maker: toyota

The owenr based ride share program:   Hourly or daily rental by allowing users to unlock the cars with their smartphones via Bluetooth

How does it work: Via App

Where is it piloting? San Francisco based Get Around will pilot the App and vehicle sharing. Get Around operates also in Austin, TX.

The legislative issue: Insuring & liability issues related to personal “rental car sharing.” What happens when a car is “rented” out and the car runs a red light camera…

LEGE TREND. Keystone State. Ride Share Bill. 4 Take Aways.

Pennsylvania Governor signed a new ride share bill this week that will:

  • A local Philadelphia tax of 1.4 percent tax on all Uber and Lyft rides will be divided up between Phila dephia’s schools and the Philadelphia Parking Authority which had imposed ride share regulations
  • Creates regulatory framework for Transportation Network Companies
  • $50,000 application fee
  • Criminal background check for drivers. =No fingerprint requirements

PA SB 984

Philly Voice | Governor Wolf to sign bill…

Ride Share v. Taxis= Dogs v. Cats = Apples v. Oranges. Your Informed Intel:

  • 7th Circuit Appellate Judge Richard Posner analogized: cities license dogs but not cats. Some people are dog people. Some People are cat people. Some people like ride share. Some people like taxis.
  • Ample service differences between ride share & taxis that justify different regulations

Chicago Tribune | Appellate judge: Taxis and Ubers are dogs and cats when it comes to regulation

Western State Revises Self Driving Car Rules. The Info you Need:

California revised its state regulations for self driving cars by adding:

  • Require cars to comply with the federally proposed 15 point NHSTA assessment
  • Permits no human driver or steering wheel if the car is in 2 way communication
  • Car manufacturers are not pleased as the NHSTA requirement impacts current and scheduled self driving car testing

California’s revised rules

Fortune | Toyota Tech Director Calls California’s Proposed Self-Driving Car Rules Preposterous

Fund Transportation with a Dedicated Tax Mitigated by Tax Cuts Elsewhere. 2 Key Pieces of Info

New Jersey Legislature passed a 23 cent gas tax increase to fund transportation. 

What do I need to know about the 23 cent tax gas increase?

  • Offset by other tax cuts ($16 billion or $1.4 billion depending who you ask)
    • elimination of the estate tax
    • cuts the sales from 7 cents to 6.625 cents
    • increased tax benefits for the working poor and veterans
  • Also created a 4 member transportation project approval board consisting of:
    • Governor appointees
    • Senate President appointee
    • Speaker…

TREND. Sharing Economy. What's the fight over fingerprinting?

Atlanta airport is welcoming ride share companies. In the process, finger printing became an issue. Here are the arguments for and against:

Argument FOR:

  • Airport officials said it was a security measure

 

Arguments AGAINST:

  • fingerprint information is incomplete
  • fingerprint information is dsicriminatory
    • 50% of African American men are arrested by age 23
    • 44% of Latino men are arrested by age 23
    • law enforcement records are incomplete and inaccurate
  • law enforcement arrest records,…

Local Gov. Trend. 1 Step to Peace and Love. Uber and Lyft Agree to this Ordinance.

The peace accord reaching local governmental entity: Florida’s Hillsborough County Public Transportation Commission

The peace accord: 

  • 15 month trial
  • Drivers will undergo a level 2 background check for criminal history, including sexual abuse
  • No  fingerprinting
  • Insurance responsibility: on the driver

Tampa Bay News 10

Lege Trend. Ride Share. California Revised Rules for Background Checks. 3 Pieces of Intel:

California Governor signed a bill requiring the following new background checks for ride share drivers:

  • Background checks must go back more than 7 years
  • Prevents the following people from being ride share drivers:
    • Any violent felony conviction
    • Sex offenders
    • Any prior violent misdemeanor convictions
    • Any citation for driving under the influence of alcohol violations in the past 7 years
  • Uber and Lyft supported the legislation

CNET | ​California tightens background checks on…

Does A Space Port Qualify as a Public Purpose for Eminent Domain? Probably Not in this Red State.

Where: Georgia

Why does the sapce port need eminent domain? Because of the frequency of launches, land surrounding the area may need to be condemned for safety purposes.

What state law impediment exists? In 2006, Georgia amended its eminent domain laws to require a public purpose, and it’s believed space travel does not meet that standard.

WABE Atlantat’s NPR | Safety, Legal Issues Could Ground Georgia Spaceport Plans