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PennDOT Chief Outlines Temporary Rules for Testing Self-Driving Cars

Pennsylvania will ask Uber Technologies Inc. and any company developing self-driving cars with the same technology onboard to immediately stop testing.

April 9, 2018

Houston Joins Smart Cities Program to Prepare for Autonomous Vehicles

Houston will join 21 other cities in a national partnership aimed at addressing persistent transportation challenges as technology and mobility choices have planners rethinking how streets, sidewalks and private spaces interact.

April 5, 2018

Maryland Bill to Restore Highway User Revenue Poised to Become Law

After years of calling to restore highway user revenue, transportation advocates may see the funding return by fiscal 2020.

April 5, 2018

SoCal Regulators See Chance to Rein in Freight Pollution

Over and over in their decadeslong war on smog, Southern California regulators have failed to use a powerful tool against ports, warehouses and other freight and logistics hubs that are magnets for air pollution.

April 5, 2018

Self-Driving Cars Are On North Carolina Turnpike Authority’s Radar

The fatal crash involving an Uber self-driving car in Arizona last month has not dissuaded the North Carolina Turnpike Authority from urging companies to test autonomous vehicles on the Triangle Expressway in western Wake County.

April 5, 2018

Truckers Ask Court to Halt Pennsylvania Turnpike Toll Payments to PennDOT

Groups representing truckers and other motorists asked a federal judge April 2 to halt the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s payments to PennDOT for state transportation projects while the court decides their claims that turnpike tolls are unconstitutionally excessive.

April 4, 2018

Opinion: Trump Plan Unlikely to Spur Promised $1 Trillion in Infrastructure Investment

WASHINGTON — On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump reiterated his pledge to “Make America Great Again” by reinvesting in infrastructure projects around the country. The news was greeted favorably by not only voters, but also municipal governments and the transportation industry.

April 4, 2018

California Starts Accepting Applications for Driverless Car Permits

California began accepting applications April 2 for permits to deploy self-driving cars on public roads without a human backup driver at the wheel.

April 3, 2018

Dow Drops More Than 400 Points After Being Down 700 as Trade-War Fears Intensify

Stock prices opened the second quarter with another sharp decline April 2 as investors grew increasingly worried about the rising U.S. trade dispute with China and a flurry of problems hammering the nation’s marquee technology firms.

April 3, 2018

Uber Crash Sparks Talk of Tighter Rules for Self-Driving Vehicles

U.S. lawmakers have applied a light touch in regulating robot cars. At the national level, the Trump administration has proclaimed that driverless-car guidelines should be “entirely voluntary” for automakers, and bills pending in Congress would clear the way to putting tens of thousands of autonomous cars on the road — orders of magnitude more than the few hundred in the country today — before federal safety regulations are set.

April 2, 2018