Today’s Headlines

8:35 AM PDT on October 30, 2018

Autonomous vehicles will kill cyclists (Forbes)
- because society must decide who will die when autonomous vehicles fail (South China Morning Post)
With autonomous vehicles, practice isn't making perfect (Wired)
Car-based school commutes hurt families with kids (The Urbanist)
Meet the kids suing the government over its climate policies (Pacific Standard)
Sacramento hopes to lead by example on transportation emissions reductions (Planetizen)
Mayors to automakers: Just stop making gas-powered cars (Curbed)
Public engagement is hard (Governing)
San Francisco struggles with what to do about RV residents (San Francisco Chronicle)
San Diego buys a bunch of electric buses (Benzinga)
Now DeMaio, head of Prop 6 campaign, threatens repeal campaign against CA Attorney General Becerra (KQED)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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