Today’s Headlines

• The four-letter word changing car commutes (Governing)
• Surprise! Proposed road diet on Orange Grove Blvd provokes anti-safety backlash (Curbed)
• Tesla crash under federal investigation (US News)
• Uber withdraws application for permit to test autonomous vehicles in California (NY Times, US News)
• So far, no companies have applied for AV testing permits in California (SF Examiner)
• Spinlister—peer-to-peer bike rental program—to shut down (Bicycle Retailer)
• “Rideshare” (sic) vs. urban transit (The American Prospect)
• Give California some credit for China's success with electric vehicles, maybe (Bloomberg)
• Orange County pushes homeless off streets, but people with homes won't let them anywhere near (LA Times)
• Facebook sued for allowing discriminatory housing ads (Curbed)
• What a citizenship question on the US Census could mean for California (Sacramento Bee)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF