Aloha State Open for AV Business - Executive Order

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You cannot be any plainer than Governor Ige of Hawaii in his executive order: "[T]the Aloha State is open for business for testing and deploying the new driverless vehicle technology." Hello!

Lots of the usual "whereas" language one finds in legislative preambles and executive orders, but a little more vacation-y.

Hawaii is a great place to test, it claims, due to the beautiful weather (wouldn't snow, wind, and rain be better?), lots of car dealers (no joke, it's in there), a college of engineering (none of those in the continental US), and a car rental facility at the airport (again, no joke). Okay, other states do not have this benefit: "ample transpacific fiber optic capacity linking Hawaii to the US mainland, Asia, Australia/New Zealand and the Pacific."

Time to update resume

The governor is establishing this job: "Hawaii CAV contact in the Office of the Governor which shall be the Administrative Director, so as to provide the highest level of attention and support to companies seeking to test self-driving vehicle technology in Hawaii."

Sign me up. I'll buy some summer dresses and bathing suits tomorrow. Apartment with water view?

Wait, if I don't get a job with Gov. Ige, there are possibilities at the "Hawaii Department of Transportation, the Hawaii Department of Public Safety, and the Hawaii Department of Business and Economic Development and Tourism." Those agencies are all directed to be AV friendly.

Aloha, buying that plane ticket now! Maybe I should not have been so snarky about all that whereas language.