What does Insurance look like for Driverless Cars?

What data is necessary for insurance rates for driverless cars? testimony from State Farm to the California Senate Insurnace Committee: Carriers need “data that shows driverless-car technology “actually does what it advertises it’s doing.”

What entities oppose the release of driverless car data?  car manufacturers that fear the release, potentially through a hack, of trade secrets

The Recorder | Insurance Carriers Say Driverless Car Data Is Key to Rates

TAMU TTI rethinking intersections. 3 key pieces of info to be informed:

Where do you need to go to study the best intersections for bikes and pedestrians? The Netherlands

What’s different about these intersections?

  • Cars top further back
  • Pedestrians and bikes are more in view for drivers
  • Bicyclists make left turns after fully crossing the intersection

Will this encrouage bicyclists in Texas to follow the rules of the road? ….

KUT | Texas A&M Showcases Dutch Bike Safety Lanes

TAMU TTI | Senate Committee Focuses on Right-Angle Intersection Crashes, TTI Testimony on Countermeasures

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 Association of Mutual Insurance Companies
  • Property Casualty Insurers Association of America
  • Alaska Chamber
  • Aspen Hotels of Alaska

 

ADN | Alaska is one of few states without Uber or Lyft. New bills could change that.

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 and so should ride share. 

Colorado Springs Gazette | Colorado Springs taxi drivers seeking level playing field with ridesharing services

Activist Trend. Transportation Funding Bill Sparks No Tax Activists

State: Colorado

The transportation funding gap: 

The proposed funding mechanism: Asking for voter approval for a sales tax to fund $3.5 billion for transportation bond funding via an increase of 0.62%

The activists: Americans for Prosperity 

The activist target: 4 Republican legislators

The Response from the Denver Editorial Board: Sen. Kevin Grantham is a statesman for standing up for Colorado transportation

Colorado Statesman | Americans for Prosperity targets four GOP senators over transportation funding legislation

Regulatory Trend. Self Driving Cars. Golden State Moves Rules for Fully Autonomous Vehicles. Read the Rules.

State: California

Newly posted rules are business friendly. Consumer advocates not as pleased. Here’s what the new rules would do:

  • Removes provision that companies  test autonomous vehicles for 1 year to fully deploy
  • Eases accident and autonomous vehicle-disengagement reporting requirements
  • No requirement for city approval for testing
  • Cities will have to be notified and companies will have to coordinate with cities

California’s March 2017 Autonomous Vehicle Rules Proposal

The Recorder | California Opens Door to Fully Autonomous Vehicle Testing

Lege Trend. Only the Key Info. Silver State Ride Share Bill.

State: Nevada

What does the bill do?

  • quarterly reporting of the number of independent contractor drivers
  • $200 state business registration for their drivers
  • makes the ride share companies enforce the driver business registration requirement

Nevada Senate Bill 226 (2017)

Las Vegas Review Journal | Nevada Legislature pushing rideshare companies to ensure compliance with state law

R Street Institute. 5 Reasons to Stop Imposing Specific Background Checks on Ride Share.

  • Its a misconception that fingerprinting makes the taxi industry safer
    • its like all all sqaures are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares
  • Academic research doesn’t show an increase in crime since ride share become a thing
  • There’s data that indicates that crime went down among taxi drivers once ride share began.
    • the competition cleaned up the taxi drivers
  • Ride share drivers and passengers are tracked by GPS, that makes for one dumb criminal
  • The federal background check system is “notoriuously unreliable”

The Hill | R Street Contributor | Legislators should stop mandating how Uber conducts background checks