COVID: Street Cameras used to measure social distancing

Where are cameras being used to measure social distancing:

  • Times Square in New York
  • Miami Beach
  • Abbey Road in London
  • Ruthven Museums Building at University of Michigan
  • Jersey Shore at Seaside Heights
  • + more

Who made this pivot? A Michigan based startup, Voxel51

How is this possible? Street cams are public, which allows the data to be pulled

Are people being identified? NO

The future regulatory/legislative issue: Will public street cameras permit the data to be used for other purposes? Will governments use that data? Could governments ticket if social distancing isn’t followed?

Governing | Company Uses Public Street Cams to Measure Social Distancing

Lege TREND. Out of state boating fee increases

Where: Utah

How did Utah increase out of state boating fees? a $20 fee for non-Utah resident boaters who launch watercraft in any of the state’s bodies of water

What does the fee increase support? eradication of aquatic invasive species

Is there an economic cost of aquatic invasive species? Yes, Idaho in 2009 estimated:

  • zebra mussels cost power companies $3.1 billion between 1993 and 1999 in the Great Lakes region alone
  • total economic costs exceeded $5 billion

HB 255 (2020 | UT)

KSL | New out-of-state boating fees and 10 other signed bills related to Utah’s outdoors

COVID + Ballot Measure for Gig Economy

In California, signatures are being submitted for a ballot measure to defeat AB 5 that defined gig economy workers as employees and not independent contractors.

Supporters of the Ballot initiative: Protect App-Based Drivers & Services, funded by Uber, Lyft and DoorDash

Supporter messaging with COVID:

“The recent pandemic has highlighted just how important app-based services and drivers are – delivering food, medicine and supplies to those who are stuck at home, driving seniors and others to medical appointments, and helping workers who perform essential services get to their jobs,”

Sacramento Bee | ANTI-AB 5 BALLOT MEASURE SIGNATURES GET TURNED IN

COVID pivots by e-bike & scooter companies

Bird & Lime: Layoffs, cost cutting

Wheels: Launched self cleaning handle bars & brake levers on their e-bikes

How does an e-bike self clean?  By utilizing light that uses mineral nano-crystals to create an oxidation reaction that is stronger than bleach

Revel: Free rentals for healthcare workers in New York

Tech Crunch | The Station: Bird and Lime layoffs, pivots in a COVID-19 era and a $2.2 trillion deal

COVID Business TREND. Auto Manufacturers Pivot.

The pivot for auto manufacturers: manufacturing ventilators

How are auto manufacturers pivoting?

  • GM is partnering with Ventec Life Systems to help increase production of respiratory care products such as ventilators
  • Ford says it is working with the US and UK governments
  • Tesla is in talks with Medtronic

Tech Crunch | Ford, GM, Tesla given the ‘go ahead’ to produce ventilators, Trump says

Anatomy of Hyperloop Legislation

Where: Missouri

How far as the legislation moved? Through the Missouri House

What will HB 1963 (2020 | MO) do?

  • Define Hyperloops so that they receive P3 funding
  • This puts hyper loops on the same funding plane as light rail and ports

The catalyst for the HB 1963? Missouri is in the top 10 of Virgin Hyperloop’s list of places it’s looking to build a 15-mile hyper loop test track

Missourinet | Missouri House passes bill aimed at transporting people in tubes