Category Archives: sharing economy

3 Reasons Ride Share Opposes a Ride Share Bill in Montpelier. Read the Bill.

The Vermont Senate added amendments to a ride share bill that turned a ride share cindustry bill into a bill that is opposed by ride share. 

What amendments were added to derail ride share?

  • Triple insurance liability requirements between rides
  • increased backgroudn checks
  • Annual registration requirements
  • 5 year grandfather protection for Burlington’s ride share ordinance

AP via Witchita Eagle | Uber, Lyft opposing Vermont bill

Burlington Free Press | Uber tries to sink Vt. bill about…

Business Trend: Ride Share Co. $5 Per Hour Car Rentals.

Company: Uber

 Business Trend: Sharing economy meets car rentals. Uber will be offering $5/hr car rentals from designated pick up sposts around San Francisco.

How do regulatory and statutory issues factor into $5/hr rentals? $5/ hr covers insurance, gas and unlimited miles

Tech Crunch | Uber and Getaround to offer $5 hourly short-term car rentals for drivers

3 Issues with Ride Share to the Emergency Room

  • All emergency care facilities do not provide the same services
  • If a patient ride shares to the emergency room, and the patient needs a different hospital, then the person will be put in an ambulence
  • The extra 30 minutes of additional transportation can be a matter of life or death

WTOL 11 | More people are choosing Uber and Lyft for trips to emergency room

KTRK | ABC 13 Hou| GROWING NUMBER OF MEDICAL PATIENTS USING UBER OR LYFT FOR TRIPS TO THE ER

Trend Spotting. Ride Share. New Never Seen Before Requirements on Ride Share.

An alderman in Chicago wants to impose the following requirements on ride share in the Windy City:

  •  illuminated signs “visible from 50 feet away” for each driver/vehicle
  • pick-up only from side streets instead of major thoroughfares, just like taxis do

The policy reasons: to make it easier for police to identify ride sahre drivers

The cost of illuminated signs: $80

Chicago Sun Times | Alderman wants Uber, Lyft vehicles to have illuminated signs

How did Hawaii Keep Uber & Lyft Out of certain areas?

2 Ways Hawaii is keeping Uber and Lyft out of its airports:

  • By requiring that only commercial vehicles that have transportation-charter party permits can provide rides
  • Requiring all cars to have transponders to track how many vehicles are available at airports 

Pacific Business Journal | Commercial vehicle protocols keeping Uber and Lyft from operating at Hawaii’s airports

Business Trend. Ride Share for non-emergency ambulance rides.

The companies: American Medical Response & Lyft

How many states are included in the non-emergency ride share program: 42

Can medical providers initiate riders too? Yes, hospitals, clinics and health plans can request and pay for rides for patients

healthcare dive | AMR teams up with Lyft for nonemergency patient rides

Envision health care | American Medical Response and Lyft Announce Partnership

What does a ride share bill look like in a state where no ride share operates? Clean Slate.

State :  Alaska

Legislation: Senate Bill 14 and House Bill 132

What do these bills do?

  • exempt drivers from state workers comp laws
  • state regulation, with no local regulation, for ride share
  • insurance while drivers are driving ride share passengers
  • require zero tolerance policies for drigs and alcohol for drivers
  • liability insurance requirements
  • local and national criminal background check for drivers

Who are the supporters, besides ride share?

  • American insurance association
  • National…

Lege Trend. Taxi Drivers in a Mountain State Want Ride Share to Do 5 things.

Taxi Drivers in Colorado Springs want ride share comapnies and their drivers to do the following:

  • Driver license fee of $97
  • background check
  • subject ride share to the same working hour restrictions as taxi drivers
  • same physical examinations that cab drivers have to undergo to drive
  • same geographic limitations for each (currently taxis have limitations but ride share does not)

Why do the taxi drivers want these 5 items? Taxi drivers say it is for parity. That they have to do these things…