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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.
Who will be responsible for pay as you drive taxes in Minnesota for ride sharing? Ride share companies
What is the reason for taxing the companies? More people will not own vehicles as ride share becomes more popular as do EV, and autonomous vehicles
Governing | With Gas Taxes in Peril, More States Study Alternatives
The business trend: Turo, a car sharing platform that describes itself as Airbnb for cars
The policy issues: liability and insurance
The platform offers insurance coverage, how are policy affected: Coverage levels and addressing the platform in statute
As of January 1, 2018, ride share drivers in California cannot drive with a blood alcohol level above 0.04 if there is a passenger in the vehicle.
Desert Sun News | Happy New Year, here are your new California traffic laws
The business: Startup Circulation
Business model: offering non-emergency transportation to medical appointments utilizing existing ride share companies
Regulatory/Legislative: Transportation services for state managed health care plans / insurance regulation
What other ride share/health care partnerships are there: Lyft partners with CareMore Health Systems
Is there data to support it? Data shows it reduces wait times by 30% and transportation costs by 1/3
Wisconsin state representative Lisa Subeck has filed LRB-0964 to move ride share driver licensing back to the local level.
The impetus? Ride Share drivers accused of sexual assault
When did WI pass statewide ride share law? 2015
WKOW | State lawmaker wants cities to license Uber and Lyft drivers
San Francisco City Council is working to adopt ride share loading zone pilot program in 8 neighborhoods.
3 Policy Reasons for/against ride share loading zones:
ABC 7 News | San Francisco considers Uber, Lyft pickup zones in some spots
Taxi Cab companies in Philadelphia are joining forces to:
The local governmental entity: Central Contra Costa Transit Authority
The local ride share proposal: To save costs of running a standard 40 foot bus in difficult to navigate residential areas, the Transit Authority is implementing a “on-demand option for commuters heading to BART”
How will the new local government ride share work in the East Bay? 6 month pilot program with TransLoc, a transportation company
San Jose Mercury News | East Bay bus agency to launch Uber-like ‘on-demand’ service