Interview with KVUE on SWSW

KVUE was looking for drivers to talk about South by SouthWest (SXSW), an annual music and tech festival in Austin, TX.  They asked me to comment on all the hype and the Presidential visit.

6PM KVUE News

5AM KVUE News

Appointed Precinct 161 Chair

Today I was appointed Precinct Chairman of 161, in Travis County.  The main duty of a Precinct Chairman is to bring out voters to all the elections.  I saw my precinct had a vacancy for the Republican party to I applied.  There was a interview and then vote by the other Precinct Chairs in the County.

The Big Day

Today was the big day.  Finally got married to Martha.  We are still working on a video, but here are a few pictures of that day.  Needless to say it was pretty stressful, up until the wedding day.  We started preparing over 2 years ago and still had many details left to the near end.  I had to also work the week before the wedding in New Orleans.  I flew in on Thursday night and the house was full of flowers and Martha was totally stressed out.  For a while there, I wasn't sure if we were going to pull it off. Fortunately, everything went pretty smoothly.  Only the Mariachi band didn't show up.  We had a violinist and harp playing.  A photo booth, caricature and County Line BBQ.  Most of our closest family was able to make it and many people came from all over the county.  The evening was capped off at the JW Marriott in downtown Austin.  Marriott called me around 7pm asking where I was.  I said I was at my wedding reception and they upgraded us to the Presidential suite!

Just Married! March 5th, 2016

Family Portrait 2016

Grand exit at Vista at Stewart Hill

JW Marriott

A video posted by Anthony Nguyen (@atn1972) on Mar 6, 2016 at 6:59am PST

KXAN On Uber Minimum Fare Increase

My first interview with AUSTIN (KXAN).  This makes it official.  I have been interviewed by every local Austin TV station now. KXAN was the last station to finally interview me.  As the fight continues to assure rideshare companies Uber and Lyft remain in Austin, Uber is doubling its minimum fare. This comes a month after the Austin City Council voted in favor of fingerprint background checks for rideshare companies. Uber and Lyft vow to leave if those measures are implemented.  KXAN asked for my opinion.

New Insurance Requirements for Uber and Lyft drivers

Another interview with KEYE.  This story is about new insurance requirements for all Texas TNC drivers.  This new law sets minimum levels of coverage for when you are logged onto the app and when you have a passenger in your car.  The driver is suppose to add this endorsement to his insurance, but if they don't, the TNC is responsibility for any liability. 

It sounds like Uber and Lyft users already comply, but if we do not buy the extra insurance and we have more than one app running, then which TNC will be liable?  The bill is almost a backdoor incentive to make TNC drivers only use one app at a time.  So they can easily tell who is liable.