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California's Daylighting Law: Keeping Vulnerable Road Users Safe

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As with many states throughout the United States, California deals with an extremely high number of traffic-related accidents that harm pedestrians, bicyclists, skateboarders, and others. For this reason, legislators have...more

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Arkansas' Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Deployment Program: Arkansas Department of Transportation Announces Electric Vehicle...

The Arkansas Department of Transportation (“ADOT”) announced what it describes as: …an interactive webmap as a tool to view the current EV charging service gaps in Arkansas (“Map”)....more

Foley Hoag LLP - Energy & Climate Counsel

EV Roundup - September 2023

The past 6 months have seen a flood of activity in the EV charging space. Since our last update, states have started implementing their electric vehicle deployment plans under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (“BIL’s”)...more

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California Starts Paving the Way with Issuance of First AV Deployment Permit

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An earlier Holland & Knight Transportation Blog discussed the progress of new autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations in California and the expected support of the Biden Administration. (See "New California Regulations Pave Way...more

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Recent Florida News: Toll Road P3s and Autonomous Vehicles

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1. Multi-use Corridors of Regional Economic Significance (“M-CORES”) - Three potential new Florida Public-Private Partnerships (“P3”). On May 17, 2019, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law SB 7068 (the “Bill”),...more

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USDOT Issues Updated Policy on Automated Vehicles, Signaling Rulemakings to Come

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The United States Department of Transportation recently released its latest policy statement on automated vehicle technologies, Automated Driving Systems 3.0: Preparing for the Future of Transportation. This new policy...more

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[WEBINAR] Automated Vehicle Pilot Project Risks and Smart Infrastructure

As pilot projects testing self-driving and connected vehicles continue to roll out across the country, new policy, liability and contractual issues arise — in addition to considerations around future "smart" infrastructure...more

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Minnesota Legislative Update: Committee-Level Movement Gets Underway

The Minnesota Legislature, in anticipation of the first committee deadline on March 22, continued to hear and move bills through policy committees this week. Legislative committees focused on Governor Dayton’s request for $10...more

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Driverless Vehicles Have Arrived in North Carolina - How Will Your Industry be Affected?

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Twelve years old. In North Carolina, a person as young as twelve years old may ride alone in a fully autonomous—or, “driverless”—vehicle....more

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FAST Act Recall Pilot Program Gets Underway in Maryland

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One of the more bedeviling problems for the automotive industry (and for manufacturers in general) is how to alert consumers to pending recalls, and getting consumers to comply with those recalls. According to NHTSA, only 70%...more

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Department of Transportation Releases New Voluntary Guidance for Autonomous Vehicles

On September 12, 2017, the Department of Transportation (DOT) released new Voluntary Guidance for Automated Driving Systems (ADS) in a document titled “A Vision for Safety 2.0” (the “Guidance”). The document, which comes as...more

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Congress Faces Tough Questions on the Road to Governing Self-Driving Cars

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Self-driving cars must also scare the hell out of Congress too. This past June 14 – long after states began their forays into regulating self-driving cars – the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee...more

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