Category Archives: regulatory trend

5 Points. Saguaro Cactus State Autonomous Vehicle Executive Order. Copy it for your State.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey revised Executive Order: 2018-04 on autonmous vehicles includes:

  • follow applicable traffic laws and regulations of Arizona and the federal government
  • fully autonomous vehicles, with no driver in the vehicle, and on pulic roads must:
    • written statement to AZ Department of Transportation (AZDOT)
    • or, within 60 days of this order provide a written statement
    • waivers from the National Highway Safety Administration will be recognized
    • autonomous vehicle failures must…

Regulatory Trend. Self Driving Taxis. How Seguro Flower State Regulators approved Waymo.

it started with: A pilot program. A 2017 Waymo Phoenix-based pilot program that still had “operators” ready to take vehicle control in an emergency. Pilot program volunteers received  free service.

the successful pilot led to: approval of a permit of the self-driving transportation network service

the touted benefits: Self driving taxis will cut per mile costs for consumers and for programs that rely on rideshare for rides for seniors or medical trasnportation

Business Insider | Waymo gets…

Business TREND. New Sharing Economy. Scooter Sharing + 3 Ordinances/Laws/Regs for Scooters.

The new business: scooter sharing via Bird

Launch city: Santa Monica CA

Seed funding: Yes, $15M to expand nation wide

The laws/regulations/ordinances at play:

  • Do scooters need permits to park?
  • Do scooters need permits to park on sidewalks?
  • Do scooter sharing comapnies need a permit? Satan Monica wants it to have a permit like a food trailer vendor.
  • What kind of local government/scooter sharing compoany data sharing arrangement can be had?

Tech Crunch | This former Uber (and Lyft) exec…

Anatomy of a Cross State HyperLoop Deal. 3 Pieces of Legislative Work in the Interim.

The company: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT)

The state partners: North Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) and the Illinois’ Department of Transportation (IDOT)

The deal: Connecting Chicago and Cleveland by Hyperloop. The starting point: a feasibility study to determine the viability of a number of different corridors. The “first real public-private partnership to bring Hyperloop travel to the US”

The legislative work:

  • Ohio’s legislature passed a resolution supporting the…

Regulatory Trend. Trucking. Trucks only Roads. The What. The How. The Why.

The What: Georgia Transportation Commission is proposing a truck only highway that stretches 40 miles from metro Atlanta to Macon

The How: Either with federal funds or only using state funds at a total cost of  $1.8 billion

The Why:  To reduce traffic congestion by an estiamted 40%

The opposition:

  •  The U.S. Public Interest Research Group says its a gamble of taxpayer money

WHNT 19 | No cars allowed: Georgia considers highway just for trucks

6 Republican Reasons for Supporting Direct Sales in Wisconsin.

  • Direct sales is the freemarket place
  • Direct Sales is rebranded as- Electric Vehicle Freedom
  • Puts American and Wisconsin consumers first
  • Creates high-paying jobs
  • Promotes American-made products
  • Direct Sales embodies the ‘America First’ principle 

 

Lege TREND. Increasing registration fees for EVs. 3 Fee Changes in Home of the Sego Lily.

A  114-page bill proposal from Utah’s Legislative Transportation and Funding Task Force suggests this fee schedule for EVs:

  • $200 annual registration fee for EVs, up from the current $44
  • $75 annual registration fee for hybrid vehicles, up from the current $44
  • The $200 fee is set to mirror the annual amount of gas tax the average Utah driver pays

The Salt Lake Tribune | Legislators propose radical changes for transportation, transit — including a tax hike 

State Appoints Tesla Employee to Motor Vehicle Dealer Board. 3 Results.

Virginia Governor McAuliffe appointed a Tesla Motors Inc. employee to a board that oversees automobile dealers, and here’s what happened:

  • The Governor became former governor before Senate confirmation
  • The Virginia Automobile Dealers Association vocally opposed the appointment
  • The Senate Committee rejects the appointment.

Background of direct sales in Virginia: The commissioner of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles permitted Tesla to open a company-owned store. The Auto Dealer…

2 Regulatory Challenges of Connected Cars from a CFO

The CFO: Hertz CFO 

The regulatory challenges of connected cars:

  • Who owns the information conencted cars gather?
    • The Manufacturer? The OEM?
    • The tech company?
    • The vehicle owner?
    • the transportation agencies that want to communicate with the conencted cars?
  • How long does ownership of the information continue? 
    • The life of the car?
    • Do manufacturers want to be in change of the information for the life of the car?
    • Do tech companies want to be incharge of the information for the life…