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EV Lege Trend. The Bill that Boosts EVs by Targeting Registrations in the Golden Poppy State

California’s AB 1745 looks to support EVs by prohibiting vehicle registrations of any non-EV vehicle after 2040.

The opposition: the California Chamber of Commerce

Sacramento Bee | California’s most powerful business group plans to kill these 21 bills

Business Trend: One Auto Manufacturer Calling for Clarity in Laws & Regs

Audi is “carefully evaluating” consumer acceptance of semiautonomous driving feature until there is better legal and regulatory clarity.

Wall Street Journal | Tesla, Uber Deaths Raise Questions About the Perils of Partly Autonomous Driving

High Speed Rail Opposition in the Bluebonnet State. Easter Trending.

Texas High Speed Rail opposition points from the week of March 15th 2018, are trending:

Government Technology | Is a High-Speed Rail Line Right for Texas?

Dallas Morning News | Dallas-to-Houston high-speed rail plan will make Texas’ I-35 corridor a loser, competitor says

4 Point Opposition to Houston to Dallas High Speed Rail. 3 Counterpoints of Support. High Speed v. Higher Speed.

Who is making these statements? SNCF America, Inc in written comments to Federal Railway Administration (FRA) Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) for the Dallas to Houston High-Speed Rail Project

What is causing the impending “doom” on passenger rail in Texas?

1 Company benefits. The Texas Central Rail Project is “designed around the best interest of a single company, not what is best for Texans or the state’s rail transportation future.”
Limited Area. Modern rail is only successful in the US with network planning
Taxpayers will be liable. operational revenue will not cover debt service
Relies on incompatible technology.

What does SNCF support?

T-bone network. passenger rail “network would serve Houston, College Station, Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Temple, Georgetown, San Marcos, and San Antonio”
More train options that consider higher speed rail (125 mph max trains)
Rail competition based on compatible train technologies

Business Wire | SNCF America, Inc. States Proposed Texas Central Rail Project Would Doom Texas’ Passenger Rail Future

6 Points Self Driving & Auto Pilot Car Legislation

Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety are calling for self driving car/ autonomous vehicle legislation that:

mandatory “vision test”to test what a vehicle’s different sensors actually see
a bill should also cover cover semi-automated systems like Tesla’s autopilot

Other advocates are calling for legislation that also:

require vehicles to meet performance targets
greater manufacturer transparency, including data from makers and operators of the vehicles
increased monitoring of and engagement with human drivers
stronger regulatory oversight

Insurance Journal | Safety Experts Weigh In on Autonomous Car Standards After Uber, Tesla Fatal Crashes

The Reasons the Cattle Raisers Oppose High Speed Rail in the Bluebonnet State

Cattle Raiser memers will be impacted
Horses and tractors cannot fit in the culverts that will be built to traverse land divided by high speed rail
The animals are disturbed by the noise (as are the humans)

WILLY 1550 AM | HSR Concerns Cattle Raisers

Lege TREND. Traffic Enforcement & EV Charging Stations from the Mountain Laurel State

Connecticut is considering the following fines for parking in a shared EV charging station spot illegally by parking a non-hybrid or non-EV vehicle in the parking spot:

civil penalty of $150
repeat violations would incur a fine of $250

What entity would set how long a car can be parked at a shared EV charging station? The operator of the charging station

Bristol Herald Courier | Fines may come to illegal parkers of hybrid vehicle spots

3 Reasons Texas Experts Say Self Driving Cars Still Safe After Arizona Death

CEO of The Alliance for Transportation Innovation says we’re “on the cusp of being able to accelerate deployment in a way that will transform society for the better”
Assistant director of connected and automated transportation strategy at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute points to humans being worse at operating vehicles, and that automation is better than humans
A senior research scientist at Texas A&M says we need to focus on the human behaior, that automobile automation is to make driving safer, while humans tend to chose to do seomthing else if they are freed from a task.

Dallas Morning News | Self-driving cars still safe despite Arizona death, Texas researchers say