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California license plates have a special coating that help facilitate the reading of license plates by electronic means. All liberty lovers, please note that the regulation at issue is a fee and not whether this coating is good or bad.
With that libertarian disclaimer, this license plate coating peels. In California, a license plate that is peeling, but still legible, generated a $1,000 fine.
Tim Kieth is the new CEO at Texas Central Rail. He is:
Texas Central Rail also garnered a $75 Million investment from:
One notable supporter, Senator Don Huffines, breaking from other conservative Senators Like Kolkhorst, who filed bills this year to limit the rail’s eminent domain authority:
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A partnership between the University of Michigan and motor vehicle companies is funding a 32 acre testing ground tfor self driving cars.
The Mobility Transformation Center is a public-private research institute that includes the testing area.
A reporter for Wired details what parts of a car hackers can control while you’re driving. It’s like a self driving car, driven by criminals with you in it.
Hackers are able to control a vehicle’s:
All of the car functions above can be controlled from a laptop by a nefarious…
A California regulator ruled certain ride share drivers to be employees for wage claim purposes and it has regulators, policy makers, attorneys and investors in overdrive.
Investors keep investing in the companies. The Recorder Bloomberg
Regulators & policymakers go both ways. Hillary Clinton is said to be using the independent contractor stance as a campaign issue. TechCrunch Jeb Bush is hailing a ride share vehicle to arrive at a speaking engagement with tech cred. SF Weekly …
Elon Musk talked regulations concerning self-driving cars at Herb Allen’s Sun Valley thinkfest. An attendee said, ” “What it must be to have a brain that works like that.”
What do Elon Musk, self driving cars, and regulations have to do with Texas?
Elon Musk made his first foray into policy this session with Tesla dealership issues. Now he’s thinking regulations for self-driving cars. Texas has no laws on self-driving cars. All together now, this means OPPORTUNITIES- contracts,…
Trying to find a solution for transportation funding, bipartisan U.S. Senators seek to tax foreign assets.
“Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Rob Portman (R., Ohio), co-chairmen of a Senate Finance Committee working group on overhauling the international tax system, would impose a one-time tax on profits that multinational companies have stashed overseas at a rate lower than the current 35% U.S. corporate tax rate, according to a summary of its major provisions.”
New York City council members are proposing a new ride share regulation. They want to cap the number of ride share vehicles for roughly a year to study how their rapidly swelling numbers are affecting congestion and the environment.
California Legislature is in special session for transportation related issues. In this mix, is a new ride share bill that would exempt drivers for services such as Uber, Lyft and Sidecar from having to register their personal cars as commercial vehicles.
The bill is in repsonse to regulatory action by California DMV that suggested every ride share vehicle (a vehicle transporting paying customers) needs commercial license plates.