I know many such cases as well. Unfortunately it's hard to prove discrimination and the laws are not in favor of the employee in most states. So apart from a news coverage like this article, I doubt much comes out of these lawsuits. Seems futile to pursue.
During regular working hours? No way! 545 is awesome and takes ~30 minutes to Seattle. So an hour is more realistic. Even carpool is not bad with much better HOV coverage.
One big problem with cycling is riding in rain or cold weather. If only there was a canopy that I could put on my bike in a few minutes and then go out for ride, that'd be so awesome! Even something permanent would be good but then you start turning it into a car and now human power is not enough to drive this vehicle. A covered single seat vehicle that is mostly human powered with some electric assist when needed and gyro stabilization would be my dream commute vehicle
I'd love for recipe sites to have this feature where I can plan a meal for the week at office on a weekday during break time and the groceries required for the meal show up at my doorstep every week. The site can then track the nutrients based on the recipe and integrate with my health tracking apps to ensure that me and my family is getting the right nutrients and exercise... I wish...
Not just that, Google is devoting its energy to develop the closed platform rather than developing android. The example you give are relatively minor updates with major new functionality now being developed outside of core android as the author points out.
edit: Here's more details https://copyright.cornell.edu/publicdomain