TRENDING. Ride Share vs. Traffic Laws like Car Seats. 3 potential fixes:

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?

  • clear statutory responsiblity in ride share statutes or ordinances 
  • ride share platforms can include car seat options
  • requirements that divers cancel/refuse riders when there is no child safety seat

ABC 15 Arizona | No car seat? ‘No problem’

KTVB Idaho | Whether it’s Uber, Lyft or a taxi, child car seats are still required

2 Regulatory Challenges of Connected Cars from a CFO

The CFO: Hertz CFO 

The regulatory challenges of connected cars:

  • Who owns the information conencted cars gather?
    • The Manufacturer? The OEM?
    • The tech company?
    • The vehicle owner?
    • the transportation agencies that want to communicate with the conencted cars?
  • How long does ownership of the information continue? 
    • The life of the car?
    • Do manufacturers want to be in change of the information for the life of the car?
    • Do tech companies want to be incharge of the information for the life of the car?

Tulsa World | Mobility habits changing, Hertz CFO tells Friends of Finance 

Lege Trend. Pay as you Drive. How do you tax Ride Share. This State has an idea:

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

3 Bits to be informed. Public Private Ride Share Partnership. A Ride Share & a D.A. office walk into…

Where: El Dorado County, CA (Sacramento area)

The Partnership: With Lyft & Uber

The partnership benefits:

  • The El Dorado County D.A.’s goal was to increase the number of safe rides to reduce the number of intoxicated drivers
  • Lyft and Uber offered $10 discount to any new rider with a ride origin or destination in El Dorado, Sacramento, Yolo or Placer counties
  • The partnership grew from the DA’s outreach campaign to reduce the number of drunk drivers

Tahoe Daily Tribune | Lyft and Uber partner with El Dorado County DA to offer discounts on rides

Regulatory TREND. 3 Study Results. Colorado Pay As You Drive vs. Gas Tax

Colorado Department of Transportation released the results of a pay as you drive pilot study & here’s the results:

  • There will be credit for any payment of the gas tax
  • Participants reported that the pay as you drive system is fair
  • CDOT remains unsure about the future of the pay as you drive program

The parameters for the pilot:

  • 4 months
  • Participants from 27 Colorado counties
  • Participants reported how much they drove by:
    • using GPS tracker
    • photographing their odometer
    • other technology that tracked distance using travel time and wind speed
    • CDOT then calculated what would be paid if the fee was 1.2 cents per mile

Coloradoan | CDOT weighs new road funding options, including charging by the mile

Legal Trend. Disclosing Ride Share Data at Airports. Appellate Court Says Yes. 2 Reasons Why.

A Florida appeals court ruled that information collected by the County for ride share companies operating at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is subject to open records.

How did we get here? Taxi companies requested  the ride share data from the county under open records laws. The county said the data isn’t subject to open reocords. The taxi companies sued. The lower court said aggregate number of pickups and the fees paid were not trade secrets.

2 Reasons the appellate court said the information is subject to open records and isn’t a trade secret:

  • Nothing indicates the fees or total pickups provide an advantage to Yellow Cab
  • Nothing indicates that Uber derives independent economic value from keeping that information secret

Sun Sentinel | Uber must give up some secrets, Florida court rules 

TX Attorney General Opinion Watch. Manufacturers vs. Dealers.

Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has requested an Attorney General opinion as to whether a dealer that performs manufacturer warranty repair violates the Occupations Code.

Why? A manufacturer or distributor cannot act like a dealer under Texas law.

Again, why? Texas Automobile Dealer Association filed a complaint with TX DMV claiming Cummins South Plains LLC violated this separation by performing manufacturer warranty repair work on diesel engines

Where is the legislative clean up likely?  Clear up what the agency sees as a conflict between Occupations Code Chapter 2301that  lays out numerous sections where dealers’ “warranty work” rights are protected (primarily in Subchapters A- “General Provisions”, F – “License Requirements”, and I – “Warranties: Reimbursement of Dealer”)  & Subchampter M that says manufacturers are obligated by the same statute to ensure that their warranty is honored.

TX Attorney General Opinion Request 0206-KP

5 Benefits of Texas Central Rail.

The chairman of the board of Texas Central Partners lists 5 reasons Texans should be excited about high speed rail:

  • it’ll set Texas apart
  • it’ll be the largest privately funded project in the nation
  • It won’t be disruptive, the noise is a “swish” from the electric train
  • it won’t have any crossings, because of the speed, the train will be elevated 25-35 feet
  • jobs. there will be 10,000 jobs for 5-6 years

KWTX | Temple: McLane says high speed rail is something to get excited about

4 Reasons a High Speed Rail Study Was Shut Down in the Midwest.

Where: Minnesota

The reasons that the Minnesota Department of Transportation was stopped from completing a high sped rail study:

  • Republicans denied the study federal funds for completion
  • Republicans said the study was a waste of taxpayer dollars
  • Republicans say Minnesotoans opposes high speed rail
  • A Republican said its not an economically viable project

Governing | High-Speed Rail Study Shut Down in the Midwest