Category Archives: self driving cars

The Big Loophole in Self Driving Car Regulations and Legislation.

What’s missing from most state and federal self driving car regulations and legislation?  Big Trucks.

Self driving truck economuy is growing and the regulations and legislation are not keeping pace, or so say lawyer sin this field in California, the first state to implement self-driving car regulations.

The Recorder | We Asked California Lawyers for Views on the New Driverless Rules. Here’s What They Said.

Roads Dedicated to Self Driving Cars. 3 Points to Know.

By 2040, I-5 between Seattle and Vancouver is expected to be dedicated 100% to self driving cars. It’ll take 3 steps to get there:

  • 1st, selfin driving cars will be able to share HOV lanes
  • 2nd, dedicating 1 lane entirely to AVs (self dirving or autonomous vehicles)
  • 3rd, convert all lanes ot autonomous driving vehicles only 

GeekWire | Major stretch of I-5 will be devoted exclusively to self-driving cars by 2040, new study predicts

1 Man. North Texas Self Driving Car Rules. 5 Things to Know.

How is DFW handling self driving vehicles in North Texas? With an automated vehicles department within theNorth Central Texas Council of Governments. It’s a department of 1 man.

What has this Department of 1 employee accomplished for self driving car policy?

  • established an “automated vehicle program,” approved by the Regional Transportation Council
  • secured funding for low-speed automated vehicle pilot programs
  • secured funding to support the use of Interstate 30 between Dallas and Fort Worth…

TREND. National Self Driving Car Law. 2 Ways the Bill Would Help Self Driving Car Industry.

The Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research In Vehicle Evolution Act, or “SELF DRIVE” Act is on its way to the U.S. Senate for action.

What woud the bill do?

  •  The Self Drive Act would increase that cap for exemptions to the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) federal motor vehicle safety standards to 25,000 per year initially
  • The cap would be expanded it up to 100,000 annually in 3 years
  • Allows all 50 states to innovate on self-driving technology
  • Prohib…

Forget Autonomous Car Legislation. Welcome the new frontier- autonomous bike legislation.

Looking to limit the number of bike and vehicle accidents, Tome Software & Trek Bicycle are teaming up.

What’s the transportation policy goal: To identify if there are certain areas on roads that are more prone to bike/vehicle accidents.

Just when you thought legislating autonomous vehicles was all the rage, now we’re moving toward AI in bikes.

Tech Crunch | Tome Software and Trek Bicycle are looking to AI to make biking safer

Which companies hold the 39 Permits for Self Driving Cars in California?

  • Volkswagen Group of America
  • Mercedes Benz
  • Waymo
  • Delphi Automotive
  • Tesla Motors
  • Bosch
  • Nissan
  • GM Cruise LLC
  • BMW
  • Honda
  • Ford
  • Zoox, Inc.
  • Drive.ai, Inc.
  • Faraday & Future Inc.
  • Baidu USA LLC
  • Wheego Electric Cars Inc.
  • Valeo North America, Inc.
  • NextEV USA, Inc.
  • Telenav, Inc.
  • NVIDIA Corporation
  • AutoX Technologies Inc
  • Subaru
  • Udacity, Inc
  • Navya Inc.
  • Renovo.auto
  • UATC LLC (Uber)
  • PlusAi Inc
  • Nuro, Inc
  • CarOne LLC
  • Apple Inc.
  • Bauer’s Intelligent Transportation
  • Pony.AI
  • TuSimple
  • Jingc…

Editorial. 3 Reasons to Slow Down on Self Driving Car Laws

Detroit. Motor City. An editorial board at the Detroit News isn’t keen on rapidly legislating self driving cars because:

  • Market Drivers.to develop the right policies we need clear signals from the market about what aspects of self driving cars will win the day
  • Infrastructure Needs. need to ensure that the legislature creates the infrastructure to maintain Dedicated Short Range Communications radios that communicate between self driving cars and the infrastructure
  • Public Private…

No Regulation TREND. 5 Reasons Self Driving Cars Thriving in Hot Weather & No Regulation. A Win for Anarchy.

Self Driving Car Companies are flooding the rain free Arizona desert, here’s why:

  • The rain free, sunny weather, is ideal for self driving car vehicle sensors
  • Arizona has no self driving car regulations
  • Arizona has calm traffic
  • Arizona has “pretty good” roads
  • The one government act on self-driving cars in Arizona is that “Governor Doug Ducey signed an executive order in 2015 requiring his underlings to “undertake any necessary steps to support the testing and operation of self-driving…

3 Ways Self Driving Cars are Problematic for Cities.

Can self driving cars harm city revenues? Some say yes in these 3 ways:

  • Self driving cars are expected to decrease parking revenues & parking enforcement revenues
  • Self driving cars would reduce the number of traffic citations
  • Overall 10-15% decline in city revenue is estimated

Governing | How Driverless Cars Could Be a Big Problem for Cities (includes look at Austin, TX revenues)

Anatomy of a MultiState Connected Car Coalition. 3 Policy Areas of Focus.

Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania Departments of Transportation have joined forces with universities to focus on automated and connected vehicle initiative.

3 Target Research Areas to Guide Policy Decisions:

  • Connected and automated applications in work zones
  • Commercial freight opportunities in testing, including platooning (connecting more than one vehicle) and potential coordination on interstates. (
    • Bonjour, TAMU’s freight project at the Houston Port.
  • Incident management to improve…