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San Francisco City Council members want to tax ride share to fund:
Supporters say:
CBS SanFrancisco | San Francisco Supervisor Wants Tax On Uber And Lyft
The wood violet state: Wisconsin
The preemption bill for taxis: AB 918 (2018) Prohibits local regulation of taxis and requires state regulation and licensing
Safety and ride share is everywhere:
Prohibiting ride share vehicle operations if the vehicle has an active recall notice.
How would this work? Recalls are easily tackable via the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
KTVU Fox 2 | Recalls among Uber & Lyft cars pose safety risk on roadways
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
Denver city auditor identified that Denver International Airport wasn’t tracking ride share rides.
Why wasn’t Denver’s airport tracking ride share rides? Because it relied on the ride share comapnies to self report
Why is self reporting from ride share a problem? Other local governments say the companies are underreporting based on the cities own tracking numbers
What are concrete examples? San Francisco found underreporting of 39,000 rides in 8 months, which accounted for $150,000 in…
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:
State: Georgia
The transportation funding bill, HB 160, would add $40 million for mass transit by:
News 11 Alive | Uber, Lyft riders among those to face new taxes under mass transit proposal
California Legislature is considering SB1014 (2018) that requires:
Which agencies are involved?
Los Angeles Times | California lawmaker wants all Uber, Lyft cars to be electric by 2028
Car seat laws, like Arizon’a usually require children younger than 8 years old or less than 4 feet 9 inches tall to sit in a proper child safety seat.
So, you get into a ride share with a child that requires a safety seat, but you don’t bring a safety seat- what’s the law?
West Virginia is considering SB 255 (2018) that places the following limitations on ride share drivers:
The bill also sets up permissible county registration of ride share drivers.