Today’s Headlines

• Self-driving car kills pedestrian. How long until the pedestrian is blamed? (NY Times)
  • Answer: about a half hour—she was “outside the crosswalk” (Bloomberg)
  • “No fault by Uber,” she “abruptly” walked into street (SF Chronicle)
  • She was walking her bike across the street (Bicycling)
• NACTO: We cannot afford to let market competition trump safety (NACTO)
• Coalition presses for stricter federal oversight of autonomous vehicles (The Hill)
• No one is trying to force anyone out of cars (Vox)
• Pedestrian bridges may be “safer” but they don’t work (San Diego Reader)
• Governor Brown’s long history with California politics and laws (New Yorker)
• Lyft tests monthly subscription idea—all the trips you want, one price (SF Chronicle)
• CPUC considers regulating Uber, Lyft like limousines and tour buses (US News)
• Traffic study will ask drivers to slow down to avoid bottlenecks (San Diego Union Tribune)
• San Francisco Supervisors oppose housing bill SB 827 (Curbed)
• Group opposes proposed housing development because parking (Curbed)
• Homeless advocate charges San Diego with enforcing encroachment rules against people but not bikes (Voice of San Diego)
• Long Beach bike-share celebrates two years (The Grunion)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF