Refreshing our Recollection | Legislation to Prohibit Ride Share Drivers from Filming in Ride Share Passengers

Voyeurism meets various state and national laws on recording passengers in ride share.

In Canada, express consent is required before ride share passengers can be recorded. 

In St. Louis,  Lyft & Uber  cut ties with a driver who recorded passengers, and streamed the rides. In Missouri, consent is not required to record interactions unless one person is naked.

AP | Uber, Lyft suspend driver who recorded St. Louis passengers | Washington Post

CBC | In Canada, Uber and Lyft drivers can’t live stream riders without ‘explicit’ consent

Refreshing our Recollection | READ THE DRAFT BILL | Road Funding through a bus & bike tax

TAX TREND. Tax Bikes and Public Transit for Roads. Where. What. How. The Legislation to Copy.

 

WHERE:  Republican Chair of the U.S. Senate Transportation Committee

WHAT: Revenue source to  raise revenue for highway construction

HOW: By imposing taxes/fees on:

  • fuel taxes paid by transit agencies
  • 10% tax on adult bicycle tires
  • 10% tax on electric batteries for cars and bikes

THE LEGISLATION DRAFT

Transportation & Infrastructure Committee | Shuster Releases Plan to Transform America’s Infrastructure

StreetsBlogUSA | House GOP Transportation Bill Would Raise Taxes on Transit and Bikes

Refreshing our Recollection | READ THE BILL | Flip an EV rebate bill to an AV tax bill

 

How an EV rebate bill became an autonomous vehicle tax bill with this language:

California Legislature is considering AB1184 (2018 | CA). 

AB 1184 is touted as the Transportation Assistance Funding Act and intended to increase rebates for EVs and hybrids but was amended to:

  • include an autonomous vehicles riding tax for San Francisco City & County
  • 1 1/2% of net rider fares for riders who agree to share their ride sahre
  • 1 3/4 % for riders who do not agree to sharing
  • the tax revenue is dedicated to fund transportation operations and infrastructure in San Francisco County and City

Utility Dive | California passes bill to coordinate EV charger planning

TREND. Executive Order on Autonomous Vehicles.

Executive Order 13 concerning autonomous vehicles will:

  • Interagency Coordination to Launch and Support Autonomous Illinois Initiative
    • ​led by Illinois Department of Transportation
  • Set best practices by looking at Review CAV research, pilot projects, and Federal, state, and international action 
  • look for legal impedements 
  • Collaborate with industry experts
  • develop workforce initiaitves
  • Creates the Autonomous Illinois Testing Program

Illinois Governor Rauner Executive Order 13 (2018) 

Business TREND. Texas Central Rail Top 100 Infrastructure Project. New Report. What you need to know:

Report is by: CG/LA, a national infrastructure advocacy group

The report:  Strategic 100 North American Infrastructure Report

What analytical factors are considered?

  • Contribution to global, regional, and national competitiveness;
  • Contribution to local and regional economic productivity;
  • Job creation potential over the lifetime of the project;
  • Business opportunity in the next 3-18 months, and over the lifetime of the project;
  • Carbon efficiency / Sustainability;
  • Country’s track record for delivering projects on schedule and within budget.

What benefits of Texas Central rail were highlighted in the report?

  • “in advancing public and business interests,”
  • generating $36 billion in direct economic impact over 25 years
  • creating 10,000 jobs each year of construction
  • creating 500 permanent operational jobs 

LEGE TREND. Lawmaker calls for Review of Ride Share State Law. Where. What. Why. & Why Now?

Where: South Carolina

What:  State Representative Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston is calling for all business to be treated fairly

Why: All transportation service companies, including taxis, should have the same rules to play by, sich as:

  • same insurance requirements
  • same licensing fees
  • muncipal caps

Why now? Now we have the data about ride share

Statehouse Report | NEWS: Lawmaker wants Uber, Lyft regulations to be reviewed for fairness

Business TREND. Ride share fee increase fund fund EV purchase.

How will Uber raise rates? By imposing a clean air fee

How much does Uber intend to raise? $260 million

How will the $260 million be used? to help all of its drivers in the city trade their gasoline-or diesel-powered vehicle in for an EV

Where is this happening? London, England

Future Car | Uber to Raise Prices in London to Help Drivers Switch to EVs

Lege Trend. Trucking Industry Backs Oil and Gas Opposition to a Ballot Proposition.

A Colorado ballot propsition to curb drilling near neighborhoods see trucking industry support oil and gas in opposition.

The opposition arguments from trucking industry:

  • it will harm the economy, and my small trucking business
  • it will harm local tax revenues when oil and gas revenues decline
  • it will harm education fudning

 

Glennwood Springs Post Independent | Counterpoint: Opposed to Proposition 112

New Report. Ride Share Increases Fatal Accidents. The Numbers.

The researchers:

  • John Barrios of the University of Chicago
  • Yael Hochberg and Livia Hanyi Yi of Rice University

The numbers:

  • When ride share beings operating in a city, fatal accidents increase by 2-3%

The method:

  • official statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • overlaid with the dates Uber or Lyft began operating in a city
  •  compared to accident rates in those cities per vehicle miles traveled 

Business Insider | The meteoric rise of Uber and Lyft may have spurred a deadly outcome, according to new research