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Lyft has been fighting a law suit over whether its drivers are employees or indpendent contractors. This determination is crucial to determine how much liability Lyft may have if something bad happens or in reimbursing its drivers for expenses.
A San Fracnisco judge denied summary judgment motions and ruled that a jury should determine whther the ride share drivers are employees or independent contractors.
Since the times of yesteryear ,and the Trans Texas Corridor, toll roads have fallen out of favor. As of 48 hours before bill filing deadline, there are 32 ways to stop tolls, stop enforcing certain tolls, or remove authority from toll roads.
How to chip away at or eliminate toll roads:
Senator Ellis has filed SB 1167. He creates a pilot program to allow for testing of self driving cars in Texas.
Under his pilot, certain people, that get a self driving car designation for their drivers license, and are either:
will be permitted to test drive the cars of the future in Texas.
Previously on Information Intelligence:
Leading the pack with HB 933, Guillen throws Texas hat into the ring for testing self driving cars and creates a border security pilot program.
Here’s what else has happened with self-driving car regulations throughout the US:
A legislative move in California is seeking to level the playing field between ride share drivers and taxi drivers. The bill died in committee last session.
This sessions’s Assembly Bill 24 “requires amateur drivers to submit to drug and alcohol testing, undergo criminal background checks overseen by the California Department of Justice and enroll in a Department of Motor Vehicles program alerting employers after DUI arrests.”
US DOT is allowing cities and states to require that local workers are utilized on transportation projects which receive federal funding.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the beginning of the pilot program this week. The one-year pilot program only applies to transportation funding received from the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration.
After passing restrictive local regulations that could cease Uber, Lyft, and ride share operations. San Antonio is proposing revisions that, if approved Thursday, would:
Courtesy of the new LBB report that examines 34 transportation funding options:
Attorney General Opinion, KP-004, tells us without a constitutional amendment, a county probably cannot:
The AG rational is that: