The Fate of Uber and Lyft Drivers in California Will be Decided Today
Trend-setting California votes on the future of the gig economy on Tuesday, deciding whether to back a ballot proposal by Uber and its allies that would cement app-based food delivery and ride-hail drivers' status as independent contractors, not employees.
Companies describe the contest as a matter of ensuring flexibility for a new generation of workers who want to choose when and how they work. Opponents see an effort to exploit workers and avoid employee-related costs that could amount to more than $392 million each for Uber and Lyft, a Reuters calculation showed.
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Ford Confirms 2021 F-150 Will Be Offered with Hands-Free Driving Technology
Ford confirmed the new 2021 F-150 will be offered with hands-off driving technology.
Upmarket trim levels will be available with Co-Pilot 360, a suite of electronic driving aids that includes a feature called Active Drive Assist.
The Active Drive Assist feature will allow drivers to take their hands completely off the steering wheel when they're traveling on the roughly 100,000 miles of American highways that Ford has mapped.
It does not turn the F-150 into a fully autonomous car, and motorists will be required to keep both eyes on the road at all times. They will be monitored by a driver-facing camera that tracks their head and eye movements.
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2020 NETS Conference Reveals Latest Fleet Safety Best Practices
Annual survey finds driver scorecards, fatigue management programs have the greatest impact
By Mark Boada, Executive Editor
October 2020
This year’s Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) Strength IN Numbers® Fleet Safety Benchmark Conference this month demonstrated once again why every fleet should belong to the organization. Why? Because it’s where fleets can learn what works best from the elite in fleet safety.
Like most other conferences held in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the three-day conference was conducted virtually over a very smooth-running platform that made it easy to watch, interact and network with members and suppliers of fleet safety systems.
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Qualcomm, FedEx, Auto Executives to Propose Transport Policies for World in Transition
The Commission on the Future of Mobility was formally unveiled on Friday. The group of business leaders and public policy experts plans to propose a new regulatory framework to address a global transportation sector "on the cusp of a worldwide transition driven by shared, connected, autonomous, and electric technologies."
Governments, including the United States, have struggled to adopt regulations to allow for wide-scale adoption of next-generation transportation like self-driving cars amid safety concerns.
SAFE CEO Robbie Diamond said the goal is to rethink everything. "If you had to rewrite regulations and policy from scratch knowing what we know about technology today ... what you would do differently?" he asked. "We want to think big."
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