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What university is trying its own car share program? The University of Nevada at Reno
What are the program requirements?
What are the goals of the university based car share program?
Who is new to Air Share? Texas Air Shuttle
Ride Share is to Taxis like Air Share is to Air Charter Association of North America. What’s the regulatory and legislative #1 issue? Security. Who is boarding and what they are bringing with them.
Houston Chronicle | Air services say demand there for ride sharers in the sky
What state legislature is active on ride share legislation? California
The bill’s author killed his own bill? Yes, asserting misunderstandings by all stakeholders
What groups supported the bill? Consumer Federation of California
What would the bill have done? “ Require passengers to opt in before ride-hailing apps could share their contact information or any other personally identifying data with third parties.”
California Legislature has a newly formed Tech Caucus. It’s full name is the Legislative Technology and Innovation Caucus.
One would think if any state had a tech caucus, it’d be California. Such is not the case. It was founded by the legislator pushing ride share legislation in California.
The priorities of the newly founded tech caucus are:
Why is TxDMV warning move-share companies? TxDMV is warning Texas based move share comapnies that they may be in violation of state law requiring the licensing of “anyone moving household goods in a pick-up truck for hire
Are we talking civil violations or criminal penalties? Both, including, criminal penalties
Why do we care? Remember hair braiding in 2015? Criminalizing people who are trying to earn a living in a free market does not go over well in the Texas Legislature’s current…
Why are we seeing Initiative and Referndum in Texas for Ride Share? Finger print requirements for ride share drivers sparked a move toward the traditional California mechanism of intitiative and referendum
What group is pushing this? Ridesharing Works for Austin, supported by TechNet
Statesman | Uber, Lyft support ballot initiative on Austin’s ride-hailing rules
What state implemented statewide ride share rules? Ohio
What city had their local ride share rules preempted? Columbus
What are the statewide ride share rules?
While drivers are logged in to the app but not providing a ride, insurance policies must provide at least $100,000 of coverage for injuries to two or more people in an accident and at least $25,000 of property-damage coverage.
While drivers are providing a ride, the insurance policy must bump…
How can ride share be linked to banks? In NY, taxicabs take out loans to pay for their taxi medallions.
The economic impact on the taxi industry by the sharing economy caused banking “unsafe and unsound conditions” at Montauk Credit Union.
Is this happening elsewhere? Yes, the banks are underwater on taxi cab medallion lonas in Boston and Chicago too.
Greater Houston Partnership Transportation Council is examining RideScout.
What’s Ride Scout? An App that “replicates the reliability and flexibility of car ownership with access to bus, rail, bikeshare, car share, taxi, carpool, walking, biking, driving and parking”