Category Archives: self driving cars

Local TREND. Local Rules for Reporting. Ride Share. 3 Points from the Rules. state preemption Loophole.

Where: Pittsburgh, PA

Why? Without a police report or accident report, there is no knowledge of accidents involving ride share and autonomous car companies

What are the parameters for local rules being considered in Pittsburgh?

  • encourage autonomous vehicle companies to self-report certain non-fatal traffic incidents
  • the goal: transparency

Where does the loophole come in? State laws that address TNCs but local ordinances apply to reporting to all incidents involving all subsisdiaries of a…

Local TREND. Mayor to Scooters: Innovate or Get Out. Who.Where.How.

Who: San Jose Mayor

Where: San Jose California

How to innovate or get out?

  • implment geofencing to prevent:
    • use of sidewalks
    • limit parking to designated areas

How far will San Jose take it? San Jose if it passes a geo fencing ordinance would be the first in the nation to do so

Mercury News | San Jose mayor to scooter companies: innovate or get out

What I need to know about a study that Says Ride Share Made Traffic Worse in an Urban Area?

Who conducted the study?  San Francisco County Transportation Authority

What urban area was studied? average speeds

What did the study reveal:

  • Slower Morning traffic. 26% decrease in average morning speeds since 2009
  • Slower Night traffic. 27% for evening traffic speeds during the same time
  • More traffic jams.  vehicle hour delays increased by 40,000 hours on an average day
  • More road wear and tear. miles traveled on local roads jumped 630,000 miles

The Car Connection | Study: Uber, Lyft…

Refreshing our Recollection | READ THE BILL | Flip an EV rebate bill to an AV tax bill

 

How an EV rebate bill became an autonomous vehicle tax bill with this language:

California Legislature is considering AB1184 (2018 | CA). 

AB 1184 is touted as the Transportation Assistance Funding Act and intended to increase rebates for EVs and hybrids but was amended to:

  • include an autonomous vehicles riding tax for San Francisco City & County
  • 1 1/2% of net rider fares for riders who agree to share their ride sahre
  • 1 3/4 % for riders who do not agree to sharing
  • the tax revenue is…

TREND. Executive Order on Autonomous Vehicles.

Executive Order 13 concerning autonomous vehicles will:

  • Interagency Coordination to Launch and Support Autonomous Illinois Initiative
    • ​led by Illinois Department of Transportation
  • Set best practices by looking at Review CAV research, pilot projects, and Federal, state, and international action 
  • look for legal impedements 
  • Collaborate with industry experts
  • develop workforce initiaitves
  • Creates the Autonomous Illinois Testing Program

Illinois Governor Rauner Executive Order 13 (2018) 

Regulatory TREND. EV Charging Lanes Coming to the Land of Lincoln?

Illinois Tollway Highway Authority is considering incorporating EV charging into its I-294 modernization. 

 EV methods being considered are:

  • EV charging lanes
    • informed:intel gave you info on the lanes first tried in Sweden around Arlanda airport near Stockholm
  • EV charging stations
  • EV super charging stations

Roads & Bridges | Illinois Tollway may add EV charging to I-294

Business TREND. Data Sharing partnership to Help Local Governments.

3 businesses: 

  • Ford
  • Uber
  • Lyft

have joined the data sharing project, SharedStreets, that focused on transportation that combines data from public and private sources.

Source of this data sharing project:  National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Open Transport Partnership

Goal of the project that helps cities: help officials integrate mobility services like ride-hailing

The Drive | Ford, Uber, Lyft Join Urban Data-Sharing Project to Reduce Traffic and Pollution

3 Ways Governments are Promoting EVs.

Looking to China and Norway, leaders in EV sales, shows these governments:

  • Norwegian government began promoting the use of EVs in 1989
    • early incentives
    • early promotion of the incentive programs
    • cut the annual registration tax on EVs
    •  exempted all EVs from road tolls
    • EV owners to bypass the 24% value added tax
  • Chinese government is focusing on promoting EVs through research and investments in EV manufacturing companies
    • China is implementing a program like California’s Zero…

Business and Regulatory TREND. EV Transportation Corridor. WHO. WHAT. WHERE.

WHO: Nissan and EVgo

 

WHAT:

  • Transportation corridor to connect the cities of Boston and Washington
  • 9 electric vehicle fast-charging stations
  • 52 total fast chargers 
  • The…“I-95 Fast Charging ARC”
  • 4+  EVs simultaneously charge at a power output of 50 kW

 

WHERE: I-95 & EVgo’s charging network has 1,000 fast chargers stations spanning 34 states

NGT News | New EV Charging Corridor Launches Between D.C. and Boston

How an EV rebate bill became an autonomous vehicle tax bill with this language:

California Legislature is considering AB1184 (2018 | CA). 

AB 1184 is touted as the Transportation Assistance Funding Act and intended to increase rebates for EVs and hybrids but was amended to:

  • include an autonomous vehicles riding tax for San Francisco City & County
  • 1 1/2% of net rider fares for riders who agree to share their ride sahre
  • 1 3/4 % for riders who do not agree to sharing
  • the tax revenue is dedicated to fund transportation operations and infrastructure in San Francisco County…