A Fairfax Connector bus leaves the Dunn Loring Metro station (staff photo by Jay Westcott) Fairfax County is poised to halve Fairfax Connector fares for low-income riders, beginning in February, through a pilot program. The Transit Ridership Incentive Program (TRIP) is a state grant initiative that aims to increase transit ridership. Reduced fares would only
States tend to default to national standards for regulating AVs, but federal officials have been slow to implement rules directed specifically at autonomous vehicles.
OPINION: The regulation of autonomous vehicles in the US is largely left to the states, resulting in a patchwork of conflicting and confusing policies where some sort of national approach ought to exist.