Category Archives: self driving cars

Researchers Say Policymakers Must Consider Bikes in Self Driving Car Laws. 3 reasons why:

  • bikes are the fastest growing mode of transportation in the US
  • bikes and cars share the road, and most self driving cars will pass a bike only when 3 feet clearance exists
  • Bikes more more erratically than cars, and self driving cars need to be programmed to predict the more nimble movements of bikes

NPR | Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety’s Sake

Business TREND. Ride Share Drivers Double Time By Working for Self Driving Car Mapping Companies.

Lvl5 is paying ride share drivers to mount a smart phone to their dash to film their routes. 

Lvl5 believes for self driving cars to work their best, they require data updates daily.

Lvl5 is building HD maps that update daily.

Where does policy, legislture, regulators fit in? Whether HD mapping or LIDAR are the primary opartaing system for self driving cars and the standards that will be required.

Verge | This startup is using Uber and Lyft drivers to bring self-driving cars to market…

17 States Address Data Security and Self Driving Cars. 1 State Declares the Data Private. What you need to know:

17 States have laws concerning when self driving car data can be accessed.

The 17 states are: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington

Only North Dakota refers to the self driving car data as private data.

Bryan Cave LLP | Data Privacy Issues of Self-Driving Vehicles

TREND. Self Driving Car laws. Federal Regulator says states should chill & look to this federal law for drafting inspiration.

Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Maureen K. Ohlhausen, said lawmakers should:

  • ease up on self driving car laws
  • and if we’re protecting consumer information when it comes to self driving and connected cars, lawmakers should look to HIPPA as a drafting example

Why the call for caution? because too many different self driving car laws and rules will:

  • create unnecessary or duplicative regulation
  • innovation could slow or stop
  • ultimately consumers could be worse off.

SC Media | FTC chair…

Lege Trend. Self Driving Package of Bills with Ride Share + Taxi. What you need to know.

A California Assembly man passed statewide ride share regulations.

The same guy leveled the playing field for taxis to compete with ride share.

The guy did it all in the name of self driving cars. But why?

Synchronizing regulation. Taxis were regulated by the city, ride share by one state agency and self driving vehicles by another agency. But, the purpose of each is to make traffic more effcient by reducing congesgtion.

Los Angeles Times | Q&A Meet the man driving the future of Uber and…

Self Driving Car Trend. 3 Economic Benefits. New Report.New Economy- the Passenger Economy.

A new report by: Intel

Sets out 3 economic benefits of self driving vehicles:

  • $7 Trillion industry by 2050
  • $3.7 Trillion or 55% will be consumer
  • $3.0 Trillion or 43% will be business to business use of self driving vehicles

New buzz phrase: Passenger Economy (passengers of self driving vehicles)

+ it saves lives: the conservative estimate of 585,000 lives can be saved by self driving cars

Intel | Accelerating the Future: The Economic Impact of the Emerging Passenger Economy 

Business Trend + Lege Trend. Store Workers Make Deliveries on Commute. Who is liable if there's an accident?

The business trend: WalMart is leveraging store worker commutes to make deliveries

Lege trend: Is the delivery during the commute within the scope of employment? Is the employee on the clock? What background checks should be required? 

WallStreet Journal | Wal-Mart Tries Using Store Workers to Deliver Online Orders

4 Regulatory Trends for Self Driving Cars

  • How statutes assign liability for an accident involving a self driving?
  • Are manufacturers liable or the software engineers or both?
  • Do local governments need to cange stop lights and traffic movement for improved self driving car efficiency?
  • If self driving cars improve transportation times, as science indicates they do, will the local and state economy benefit?

Findlaw | Technologist | Can One Driverless Car Change Auto Liability?

Anatomy of a bill. SB 2205. Self Driving Cars.

SB 2205 in the stealth like manner of an electric vehicle is on Saturday’s General State House Calendar. So, let’s take a peak at this legislative trend as it moves in Texas:

SB 2205 will:

  • allow for no humans in an operating self driving car
  • it loops in commerical self driving cars- bonjour garden center delivery services
  • the owner is considered the operator whether or not the owner is in the vehicle
  • if its operating on a highway it needs:
    • insurance
    • to comply with federal guidelines
    • a…