Transportation
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The Hawaii Department of Transportation has launched its Eyes on the Road project, which leverages dashcams in private and state-owned vehicles to gather vast amounts of information on roadway conditions. -
All e-bikes must be registered and insured, whether they are low-speed e-bikes that require pedaling and can't exceed 20 miles per hour, or they are motorized bicycles that reach 28 miles per hour.
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A Missouri bill would enable self-driving taxis but it would open roads to autonomous semitrucks, prompting pushback from commercial drivers. Supporters include disability rights advocates.
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Though exactly who or what caused the collision between a motorcyclist and an autonomous vehicle remains unclear, a lawsuit against the car’s maker, General Motors, has been filed.
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The automotive association found that U.S. drivers are becoming more trusting of the autonomous vehicle technology.
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The group, created through an executive order, will study and report on how transportation might develop between 2020 and 2040.
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The effort to build a high-speed rail line between the Bay Area and Los Angeles is facing mounting costs that could stall the project’s progress even more.
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The California-based bike-share company LimeBike will launch a fleet of the rentable bicycles in the spring.
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After hinting as much, a leaked document outlines the president’s plan to put funding responsibility in the hands of states and private investment.
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Over the course of the next decade, autonomous vehicles will mean narrower lanes, flyover ramps at intersections, fewer public parking lots and more shortcuts through neighborhoods, officials say.
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Highway expansions as well as the potential for dedicated autonomous vehicle lanes are being considered as possible congestion fixes.
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The policies and regulatory needs around autonomous technology will be the central focus of the Highly Automated Vehicles Advisory Committee.
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Resident complaints have helped prompt the installation of adaptive traffic signals throughout town.
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On Jan. 18, Gov. John Kasich kicked off the DriveOhio initiative, which establishes a single point of contact for all things smart transportation in the state.
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Among a number of other priorities, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive budget outlines the extension of autonomous vehicle testing in the state and a proposal that would ban cellphone use for young drivers.
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The proposal would funnel $2.6 billion to railroads to help them implement Positive Train Controls ahead of the Dec. 2018 federal deadline.
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The cars, which were fully autonomous 99 percent of the time, gave more than 400 rides during CES to more than 20 destinations on the Las Vegas Strip and elsewhere in the city.
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New York City's CTO, Miguel Gamiño, has a vision for how connected technology can make our lives better.
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Schools across the state are partnering with government agencies to share the high up-front costs, while hoping to save money through lower maintenance and fuel bills.
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City officials are set to approve the four-year program aimed at testing the technology.
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Connecting vehicles to one another and the world around them poses a substantial cybersecurity hurdle that automakers must overcome.
