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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – Dec. 2017

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Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. Washington. In Spokane County, Washington, job applicants will no longer be asked to disclose criminal convictions from the past 10 years. The change is part of a final rule to take effect on Jan.

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Regulatory & Legal Alerts – October 2017

Green Car Reports

Peopletrail actively tracks the regulatory and legal environment that surrounds employment and criminal background screening. Washington. Everett, Washington is putting off the enforcement of new rules for ride-share companies Lyft and Uber after both canceled service in town. State Legislation.

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California expected to move forward with diesel trucks ban

Teslarati

According to a report from the Washington Post , the EPA will likely grant California a waiver to implement the regulations in the coming weeks. Perhaps the most significant part of the California regulations is their effect on vehicles outside the state. What do you think of the article?

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In Tesla Autopilot probe, US prosecutors focus on securities, wire fraud – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Last October, it disclosed in a filing that the Justice Department had asked the company for information about Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. Prosecutors are far from deciding how to proceed, one of the sources said, in part because they are sifting through voluminous documents Tesla provided in response to subpoenas.

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Tesla Model Y added to Hertz fleet, joining Model 3

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Last year, Hertz ordered 100,000 Model 3 vehicles from Tesla in a deal that still has yet to be completely fulfilled, but it has not stopped the rental company from offering a new all-electric body style available to customers. The rental company also told us that availability was in several U.S. Credit: Tesla New York/Twitter).

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Lewis H. Latimer: A Life of Lightbulb Moments

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Emblematic of the hope, faith, perseverance, and drive to overcome systemic legal and social barriers the song encapsulates is the life of self-taught technical genius Lewis H. Maxim hired Latimer as assistant manager and draftsman at his United States Electric Lighting Company , an early rival of Edison General Electric.

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Volvo Car Corp. demonstrates autonomous driving in traffic jams; traffic jam assistance system ready for production in 2014

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This technology makes driving more relaxed in the kind of monotonous queuing that is a less attractive part of daily driving in urban areas. Slow-moving queues are part of urban commuting. But the legal situation for this technology still remains unclear. It offers you a safe, effortless drive in slow traffic. Earlier post.).

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