The Innovations Transportation Subcommittee advanced multiple photo enforcement, towing, and autonomous vehicle bills, but punted its most contentious item — SB 670, a comprehensive commercial autonomous vehicle framework — to full committee after industry opposition called the substitute 'the worst framework in the country' and members cited unresolved arbitration, TNC provisions, and work group failures.
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Delegate White argued the definition of 'high risk speed corridor' was unclear — even when VDOT testified, it was uncertain what qualified — and stated he could not support the bill for that reason. Senator Williams Graves responded that the only addition in the bill was stop sign cameras to protect pedestrians and argued there was no new expansion of camera locations. Madam Chair acknowledged 'this does have that bit of expansion' but said it operated under VDOT guardrails.
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“We are very supportive of the Commonwealth joining those 26 other states with a framework for autonomous vehicles. We are not opposed to autonomous vehicles. We think the Commonwealth should welcome them. However, this bill, and with all due respect to the patron and all his hard work, this bill, this framework, will be the worst framework in the country. And for that reason, we are opposed to the bill.”
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Sign in to subscribeIt. Welcome to the Innovations Transportation Committee. We're going to go. At ease. I called this meeting to order. Thank you all for your patience. This is the last Transportation Innovations subcommittee meeting. The clerk will open the roll so we can get attendance. Looks like a quorum is present. We will shift right along. So I have up. We're going to go ahead and take 4:55. Isn't the stuff here? Nope. Okay. Okay. All right. Senator Diggs, if you can come on up. You've got two that relate. Come on. That relate to someone else's. You come on up. We talked about this. Are you all good with that? Copy all. Let's do it. Come on. I just let you take the lead. Senator. New Craig. Good afternoon Madam Chair, members of the committee. Mine's a simple bill. It is SB150. School monitor, school bus monitoring systems and basically this bill is like the bill I had last year. We're just basically changing the code where they take out the word sworn. We're just using retired law enforcement officers to review the tapes instead of a full time officer. We'll put them back on the street and we'll use…
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