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BUSINESS TREND. REGULATORY TREND. 3 Reasons Automakers Want to Work With California Emission Standards.

Why did Automakers adapt their strategy?

Concern over Trump Administration. The concern being that the Administration will pick a fight with the 12 states that follow California emission standards & automakers will be left fixing the problems
Uniformity & Certainty. factions of varying regulations isn’t conducive to business
Sales. 50 different EV car sales account for fewer sales than F150 Ford truck sales

Texas University with new cybersecurity and autonomous vehicles research: University of Texas at San Antonio, Institute for Cyber Security

What code words do I need to watch for in regulations or legislation? fog cloud computing

What’s fog cloud computing? A distributed ledger system of cloud computing being utilized to improve security of autonmous vehicles

How does it make it harder to hack an autonmous vehicle? more barriers, if the information is in packets and spread across various…

California Public Utilities Commission adopted new rules for self-driving taxis, and the key points are:

The 1st pilot program will be for at least 90 days and allow:
- “Transportation Charter-Party (TCP) Carrier permit-holders to add test autonomous vehiclesto their passenger carrier equipment statement, where the TCP permit-holder also holds an Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program Manufacturer’s Testing Permit (AV Testing Permit) issued by the DMV, including where the service is provided free…

State: Pennsylvania

The EV Bill: Pennsylvania’s HB 1446 (2018)

The EV Charging Station framework proposed by HB1446:

Governor must set EV charging station rollout based at 50% above 2030 estimates
the framework must set statewide goals
the framework must also establish separate regional goals
- developed by stakeholders including agencies, municipalities & electric distribution companies

The response by an EV charging station company:

City: Phoenix Area

Self Driving Taxi Proposal:

Waymo is proposing an autonomous taxi service in 100 square miles in metro Phoenix
In preparation, Waymo testing has:
- driven on public roads for more than 5 million miles
- traveled five billion miles in computer simulation

Response to the autonomous driving fatality in Phoenix: Waymo CEO John Krafcik said his company’s technology could have avoided the incident

Nebraska Legislature sent to final reading LB989 (2018) that will:

permit self driving cars anywhere in Nebraska
allows for no human driver as long as certain conditions are met
allows for consultation with railroads concerning self driving vehicles and railroad crossings

How did the bill begin? As a pilot project in Lincoln on a fixed route and was expanded to anywhere in the state.

Open records requests, after the self driving Uber fatality in Arizona, reveal the following ways Governor Ducey actively promoted Uber publicly:

Audi is “carefully evaluating” consumer acceptance of semiautonomous driving feature until there is better legal and regulatory clarity.

CEO of The Alliance for Transportation Innovation says we’re “on the cusp of being able to accelerate deployment in a way that will transform society for the better”
Assistant director of connected and automated transportation strategy at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute points to humans being worse at operating vehicles, and that automation is better than humans
A senior research scientist at Texas A&M says we need to focus on the human behaior, that automobile automation is to make…