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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Proud Harley-Davidson owner Dan Bustindy, 65, has been riding this brand of motorcycle for over 20 years in the Bay Area. Bustindy says he just loves the way Harleys make you feel when you ride them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get to feel all of your senses, not just your sight and your hearing,” says Bustindy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you’ve ever been around a Harley-Davidson, you know that one of its most distinctive qualities is the way it sounds. It’s that unmistakable syncopated engine rumble that some lovingly call the “potato-potato-potato” sound. (Say it out loud, and you’ll understand.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that distinctive rumble could soon be a thing of the past for Harley-Davidson as the company looks to go electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Harley-Davidson invested in Alta Motors, a small electric motorcycle company tucked away in Brisbane. Why? Harley wants Alta’s expertise to help them enter the electric motorcycle market and, more importantly, to attract new and younger riders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659261\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11659261 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30193_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-3-qut.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta Motors’ Redshift SM looks similar to a traditional motorcycle. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a really typical move in the Bay Area,” says CityBike editor Surj Gish. “You acquire talent by buying a company or investing in a company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gish says Harley-Davidson, along with other major motorcycle manufacturers, is behind the curve when it comes to electric vehicle technology, so this is a smart move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gish says there’s just one problem that Harley has in particular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve developed the hell out of their brand,” says Gish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s usually a good thing, but Gish says their brand appeals to an older crowd. So some people might think of older gentlemen in leather chaps, or “Sons of Anarchy,” the television show about the outlaw Harley motorcycle gang. But like most of the motorcycle industry, Harley riders are aging out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harley has an opportunity that they have to take, which is they have to attract the attention of other purchasers, without losing the old-timers that just want big touring bikes and what-not,” says Gish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means rebranding and moving away from what some might see as unwieldy and loud motorcycles to quiet and easy-to-ride motorcycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really anybody can throw a leg over one and safely operate it,” says Alta Motors co-founder Marc Fenigstein of the company’s dirt bike, called the Redshift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659262\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659262\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30190_Image-uploaded-from-iOS-1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alta co-founder Marc Fenigstein says the company strives to make their motorcycles better than gas-powered motorcycles. \u003ccite>(Tiffany Camhi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fenigstein says electric motorcycles are generally easy to master because they have no gears. It’s just twist and go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Alta’s bikes are high-powered. In 2016, one of its electric motorcycles beat out its gas-powered counterparts in a supercross race. It was a first in the electric motorcycle world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the question still lingers: What do Harley’s tried-and-true base think about electric hogs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be great for commuters. It would be great for people who have never ridden a motorcycle before,” says Bustindy. “But I don’t think I would ever own one because I like to tour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Motorcycle touring, or going on long rides, is not something electric motorcycles can do because they run out of charge quicker than traditional engines run out of gas. At least for now. 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"content": "\u003cp>The vehicle in a fatal crash last week in Mountain View was operating on Autopilot, making it the latest accident to involve a self-driving vehicle, Tesla confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the Tesla Crash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658404/safety-agency-orders-probe-of-tesla-crash-and-fire-as-company-points-to-freeway-hazard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safety Agency Orders Probe of Tesla Crash; Company Points to Freeway Hazard\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The electric car maker said the driver, who was killed in the accident, did not have his hands on the steering wheel for six seconds before the crash, despite several warnings from the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla Inc. tells drivers that its Autopilot system, which can keep speed, change lanes and self-park, requires drivers to keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel in order to take control of the vehicle to avoid accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11658478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-28-at-1.40.19-PM-e1522529621919.png\" alt=\"A Tesla Model X burns on U.S. 101 after crashing Friday morning in Mountain View.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1288\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Tesla Model X burns on U.S. 101 after crashing Friday morning in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nbcbayarea/status/978684941679648768\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Bay Area via Twitter\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla said its vehicle logs show the driver took no action to stop the Model X SUV from crashing into a concrete lane divider. Photographs of the SUV show that the front of the vehicle was demolished; its hood was ripped off; and its front wheels were scattered on the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle also caught fire, though Tesla said no one was in the vehicle when that happened. The company said the crash was made worse by a missing or damaged safety shield on the end of the freeway barrier that is supposed to reduce the impact into the concrete lane divider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The driver was Walter Huang, 38, a software engineer for Apple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"None of this changes how devastating an event like this is or how much we feel for our customer's family and friends,\" Tesla said on its \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week%E2%80%99s-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website\u003c/a> late Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About Uber Crash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658245/arizona-suspends-ubers-self-driving-vehicle-testing-after-fatal-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Uber Won't Seek California Permit Renewal to Test Self-Driving Vehicles After Fatal Crash\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11657306/police-release-video-of-fatal-crash-involving-uber-self-driving-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Police Release Video Of Fatal Crash Involving Uber Self-Driving Car\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, a self-driving Volvo SUV being tested by ride-hailing service Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla Inc. defended its Autopilot feature, saying that while it doesn't prevent all accidents, it makes them less likely to occur than vehicles without it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal investigators are looking into last week's crash, as well as a separate crash in January of a Tesla Model S that may have been operating under the Autopilot system.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The vehicle in a fatal crash last week in Mountain View was operating on Autopilot, making it the latest accident to involve a self-driving vehicle, Tesla confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>Read More About the Tesla Crash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11658404/safety-agency-orders-probe-of-tesla-crash-and-fire-as-company-points-to-freeway-hazard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safety Agency Orders Probe of Tesla Crash; Company Points to Freeway Hazard\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The electric car maker said the driver, who was killed in the accident, did not have his hands on the steering wheel for six seconds before the crash, despite several warnings from the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla Inc. tells drivers that its Autopilot system, which can keep speed, change lanes and self-park, requires drivers to keep their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel in order to take control of the vehicle to avoid accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11658478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-28-at-1.40.19-PM-e1522529621919.png\" alt=\"A Tesla Model X burns on U.S. 101 after crashing Friday morning in Mountain View.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1288\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Tesla Model X burns on U.S. 101 after crashing Friday morning in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nbcbayarea/status/978684941679648768\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Bay Area via Twitter\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla said its vehicle logs show the driver took no action to stop the Model X SUV from crashing into a concrete lane divider. Photographs of the SUV show that the front of the vehicle was demolished; its hood was ripped off; and its front wheels were scattered on the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vehicle also caught fire, though Tesla said no one was in the vehicle when that happened. The company said the crash was made worse by a missing or damaged safety shield on the end of the freeway barrier that is supposed to reduce the impact into the concrete lane divider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#update\">Updated 12:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows yet exactly why a Tesla Model X crashed last Friday on U.S. 101 in Mountain View, killing its 38-year-old driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both the carmaker and federal and state investigators are looking at a range of factors surrounding the crash and its aftermath, including whether the electric vehicle’s Autopilot system was engaged, the apparent absence of a safety barrier that may have made the crash impact more severe and the fact local firefighters needed to call Tesla for help in controlling the battery fire that followed the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash occurred just before 9:30 a.m. Friday, when the Model X struck a concrete highway divider along southbound U.S. 101. The CHP reported the crash occurred “at freeway speeds,” and witnesses said the Model X burst into flames immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities identified the driver as Wei Huang, 38, of Mountain View, though he was known to family, friends and associates as Walter Huang. He died at Stanford University Medical Center several hours after the crash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang was a longtime software engineer at Electronic Arts before taking an engineering job at Apple last November. Huang was lived in Foster City and was married with two children. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP confirmed Thursday that Huang’s family has told investigators he had reported problems with his Model X’s Autopilot system at the same spot where he crashed Friday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Report: Vehicle ‘Would Swivel Toward Barrier’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABC7 on Wednesday night \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-victim-who-died-in-tesla-crash-had-complained-about-auto-pilot/3275600/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">quoted\u003c/a> Huang’s brother as saying Walter Huang had told family members of multiple occasions when the Model X “would swivel toward that same exact barrier during auto-pilot.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Huang told ABC7 that his brother brought the car into a dealership to have the problem checked out, but technicians could not duplicate the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the report, Tesla said it had no records of a service visit specifically related to the car’s Autopilot system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-we-know-about-last-weeks-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement\u003c/a> late Tuesday that because of severe damage to the SUV, it has been unable so far to recover data from the car’s onboard computer. The data could show whether the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system was engaged at the time of the crash, whether the vehicle’s brakes were applied before the collision and other information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement highlighted the role of a missing safety barrier — called a crash attenuator — at the crash site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash occurred at a point where the left lane of southbound 101 exits onto a flyover ramp that carries traffic to southbound Highway 85. As traffic moves toward the ramp, it’s separated from the flow of southbound 101 by a concrete divider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google Streetview images show that since 2011, Caltrans has replaced a simple guardrail at the site and installed a crash attenuator — in this case, a steel framework designed to collapse upon impact to dissipate the energy of a crash — to reduce the danger to motorists who may hit the concrete wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658421\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 458px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11658421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png 458w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-160x84.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-240x126.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-375x197.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google Streetview image from November 2017 shows a crash attenuator in place at an exit from southbound U.S. 101 to southbound Highway 85 in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(Google Streetview via Tesla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658420\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11658420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png 459w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-160x83.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-240x124.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-375x194.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image that Tesla says was taken March 22 and shows crash attenuator missing from site of fatal Model X incident the following day. Tesla says the severity of the crash was due to the absence of the safety barrier. \u003ccite>(Tesla )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement compares a Streetview image from November to a picture captured by a passing vehicle’s dashboard camera last Thursday and says the images prove the crash attenuator was not in place. The company makes a further claim, too: that the absence of the safety barrier was primarily responsible for the devastating damage the crash caused to the company’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason this crash was so severe is that the crash attenuator, a highway safety barrier which is designed to reduce the impact into a concrete lane divider, had either been removed or crushed in a prior accident without being replaced,” Tesla said. “… We have never seen this level of damage to a Model X in any other crash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board told the Washington Post the agency is “looking at the damaged attenuator and looking at an undamaged one and looking at if it had an effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reported Thursday that the crash attenuator had been damaged in a crash March 12. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said in a statement late Wednesday afternoon that the agency is “reviewing the facts and circumstances of this incident and are cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board’s ongoing investigation. Safety is our top priority and Caltrans will carefully evaluate the investigation’s findings and take appropriate action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous Damage Visible in Online Images\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of Google Streetview images over the last seven years shows the crash barrier was installed between May 2011 and December 2013. Images from 2014 through 2016 depict it intact, but it’s absent in pictures captured in January and February 2017, apparently after a crash at the site. The attenuator was back in place by late last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement came after the National Transportation Safety Board announced it has dispatched two investigators to look into the post-crash fire and the steps that firefighters and Tesla technicians had to take to make the Model X safe to remove from the crash scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires are a well-known hazard for conventional gasoline-fueled vehicles. But both manufacturers and emergency responders are facing unique fire hazards posed by battery-powered vehicles like the Model X involved in Friday’s crash. California has about 350,000 electric vehicles on the road — and hundreds of thousands of hybrids and plug-in hybrids that use similar battery technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-voltage batteries used by Tesla and other electric carmakers — actually a collection of modules containing hundreds of small lithium ion cells — are known to pose a fire risk if the battery compartment is breached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla and other manufacturers publish emergency guides for first responders with special instructions on how to deal with the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the high voltage battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is bent, twisted, cracked, or breached in any way, use large amounts of water to cool the battery,” Tesla’s \u003ca href=\"http://assets.teslastatic.com/2016_Model_X_Emergency_Response_Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 emergency response guide\u003c/a> for the Model X warns. “DO NOT extinguish with a small amount of water. Always establish or request an additional water supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide adds that the batteries can burn for 24 hours and that responders should use thermal imaging equipment to ensure that a fire is actually out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Firefighters Turned to Tesla for Help\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View Fire Chief Juan Diaz told reporters Friday that his firefighters had only a limited amount of water to try to douse the battery fire that broke out after the Model X crash. That led the Fire Department to seek outside expertise — from Tesla itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/03/26/driver-identified-in-fiery-tesla-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mountain View Voice\u003c/a> news site:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Diaz said the department was put in a difficult situation. Fire crews had 500 gallons of water at the scene, but getting any more would have required running 2,000 feet of thick fire hose across Highway 101, which would have been catastrophic for traffic in both directions, Diaz said. But letting the car continue to burn on a busy highway, destroying the battery, would have been a bad choice as well, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of the Highway 101 freeway, that’s not something we want to do,” he said. “And it’s not good for the environment with the byproducts of combustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews used the available supply of water and contacted the manufacturer of the vehicle, Palo Alto-based Tesla, to assist in getting the battery’s temperature under control. Diaz said the engineers essentially disassembled a portion of the car battery on the spot, and that subsequent thermal imaging showed that the battery was no longer unstable.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It took about 5½ hours after the crash before the vehicle was considered stable enough to move. Diaz said crews monitored the wreckage at an impound yard because of the possibility of reignition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s share price has fallen nearly $50 — from $304 at the open of trading Tuesday to $257 late Wednesday — partly in response to news of the NTSB probe into the Friday crash. Analysts say investors are also selling Tesla shares because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-crash-ntsb/u-s-opens-probe-into-fatal-tesla-crash-fire-in-california-idUSKBN1H32OT\">a credit downgrade\u003c/a> announced Tuesday night.\u003cbr>\n<a id=\"update\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Updates:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>5 p.m. Wednesday, to include response from Caltrans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 p.m. Thursday, to include new details about victim Walter Huang and claims that he had complained about his Tesla Model X’s Autopilot system.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#update\">Updated 12:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows yet exactly why a Tesla Model X crashed last Friday on U.S. 101 in Mountain View, killing its 38-year-old driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But both the carmaker and federal and state investigators are looking at a range of factors surrounding the crash and its aftermath, including whether the electric vehicle’s Autopilot system was engaged, the apparent absence of a safety barrier that may have made the crash impact more severe and the fact local firefighters needed to call Tesla for help in controlling the battery fire that followed the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash occurred just before 9:30 a.m. Friday, when the Model X struck a concrete highway divider along southbound U.S. 101. The CHP reported the crash occurred “at freeway speeds,” and witnesses said the Model X burst into flames immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities identified the driver as Wei Huang, 38, of Mountain View, though he was known to family, friends and associates as Walter Huang. He died at Stanford University Medical Center several hours after the crash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huang was a longtime software engineer at Electronic Arts before taking an engineering job at Apple last November. Huang was lived in Foster City and was married with two children. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP confirmed Thursday that Huang’s family has told investigators he had reported problems with his Model X’s Autopilot system at the same spot where he crashed Friday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Report: Vehicle ‘Would Swivel Toward Barrier’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABC7 on Wednesday night \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-victim-who-died-in-tesla-crash-had-complained-about-auto-pilot/3275600/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">quoted\u003c/a> Huang’s brother as saying Walter Huang had told family members of multiple occasions when the Model X “would swivel toward that same exact barrier during auto-pilot.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will Huang told ABC7 that his brother brought the car into a dealership to have the problem checked out, but technicians could not duplicate the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the report, Tesla said it had no records of a service visit specifically related to the car’s Autopilot system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.tesla.com/blog/what-we-know-about-last-weeks-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement\u003c/a> late Tuesday that because of severe damage to the SUV, it has been unable so far to recover data from the car’s onboard computer. The data could show whether the car’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system was engaged at the time of the crash, whether the vehicle’s brakes were applied before the collision and other information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement highlighted the role of a missing safety barrier — called a crash attenuator — at the crash site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash occurred at a point where the left lane of southbound 101 exits onto a flyover ramp that carries traffic to southbound Highway 85. As traffic moves toward the ramp, it’s separated from the flow of southbound 101 by a concrete divider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google Streetview images show that since 2011, Caltrans has replaced a simple guardrail at the site and installed a crash attenuator — in this case, a steel framework designed to collapse upon impact to dissipate the energy of a crash — to reduce the danger to motorists who may hit the concrete wall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658421\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 458px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11658421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1.png 458w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-160x84.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-240x126.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash1-375x197.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google Streetview image from November 2017 shows a crash attenuator in place at an exit from southbound U.S. 101 to southbound Highway 85 in Mountain View. \u003ccite>(Google Streetview via Tesla)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658420\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11658420\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2.png 459w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-160x83.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-240x124.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/crash2-375x194.png 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image that Tesla says was taken March 22 and shows crash attenuator missing from site of fatal Model X incident the following day. Tesla says the severity of the crash was due to the absence of the safety barrier. \u003ccite>(Tesla )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement compares a Streetview image from November to a picture captured by a passing vehicle’s dashboard camera last Thursday and says the images prove the crash attenuator was not in place. The company makes a further claim, too: that the absence of the safety barrier was primarily responsible for the devastating damage the crash caused to the company’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason this crash was so severe is that the crash attenuator, a highway safety barrier which is designed to reduce the impact into a concrete lane divider, had either been removed or crushed in a prior accident without being replaced,” Tesla said. “… We have never seen this level of damage to a Model X in any other crash.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board told the Washington Post the agency is “looking at the damaged attenuator and looking at an undamaged one and looking at if it had an effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol reported Thursday that the crash attenuator had been damaged in a crash March 12. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans said in a statement late Wednesday afternoon that the agency is “reviewing the facts and circumstances of this incident and are cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board’s ongoing investigation. Safety is our top priority and Caltrans will carefully evaluate the investigation’s findings and take appropriate action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Previous Damage Visible in Online Images\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of Google Streetview images over the last seven years shows the crash barrier was installed between May 2011 and December 2013. Images from 2014 through 2016 depict it intact, but it’s absent in pictures captured in January and February 2017, apparently after a crash at the site. The attenuator was back in place by late last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s statement came after the National Transportation Safety Board announced it has dispatched two investigators to look into the post-crash fire and the steps that firefighters and Tesla technicians had to take to make the Model X safe to remove from the crash scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fires are a well-known hazard for conventional gasoline-fueled vehicles. But both manufacturers and emergency responders are facing unique fire hazards posed by battery-powered vehicles like the Model X involved in Friday’s crash. California has about 350,000 electric vehicles on the road — and hundreds of thousands of hybrids and plug-in hybrids that use similar battery technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high-voltage batteries used by Tesla and other electric carmakers — actually a collection of modules containing hundreds of small lithium ion cells — are known to pose a fire risk if the battery compartment is breached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla and other manufacturers publish emergency guides for first responders with special instructions on how to deal with the risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the high voltage battery catches fire, is exposed to high heat, or is bent, twisted, cracked, or breached in any way, use large amounts of water to cool the battery,” Tesla’s \u003ca href=\"http://assets.teslastatic.com/2016_Model_X_Emergency_Response_Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016 emergency response guide\u003c/a> for the Model X warns. “DO NOT extinguish with a small amount of water. Always establish or request an additional water supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guide adds that the batteries can burn for 24 hours and that responders should use thermal imaging equipment to ensure that a fire is actually out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Firefighters Turned to Tesla for Help\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View Fire Chief Juan Diaz told reporters Friday that his firefighters had only a limited amount of water to try to douse the battery fire that broke out after the Model X crash. That led the Fire Department to seek outside expertise — from Tesla itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2018/03/26/driver-identified-in-fiery-tesla-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mountain View Voice\u003c/a> news site:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Diaz said the department was put in a difficult situation. Fire crews had 500 gallons of water at the scene, but getting any more would have required running 2,000 feet of thick fire hose across Highway 101, which would have been catastrophic for traffic in both directions, Diaz said. But letting the car continue to burn on a busy highway, destroying the battery, would have been a bad choice as well, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of the Highway 101 freeway, that’s not something we want to do,” he said. “And it’s not good for the environment with the byproducts of combustion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire crews used the available supply of water and contacted the manufacturer of the vehicle, Palo Alto-based Tesla, to assist in getting the battery’s temperature under control. Diaz said the engineers essentially disassembled a portion of the car battery on the spot, and that subsequent thermal imaging showed that the battery was no longer unstable.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It took about 5½ hours after the crash before the vehicle was considered stable enough to move. Diaz said crews monitored the wreckage at an impound yard because of the possibility of reignition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tesla’s share price has fallen nearly $50 — from $304 at the open of trading Tuesday to $257 late Wednesday — partly in response to news of the NTSB probe into the Friday crash. Analysts say investors are also selling Tesla shares because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-crash-ntsb/u-s-opens-probe-into-fatal-tesla-crash-fire-in-california-idUSKBN1H32OT\">a credit downgrade\u003c/a> announced Tuesday night.\u003cbr>\n<a id=\"update\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Updates:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>5 p.m. Wednesday, to include response from Caltrans.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>1 p.m. Thursday, to include new details about victim Walter Huang and claims that he had complained about his Tesla Model X’s Autopilot system.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated at 9:10 a.m. ET Wednesday\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future of Uber's self-driving car program is likely nonexistent in California, at least for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company announced it will not renew Uber's permit through the state's Department of Motor Vehicles to continue testing a fleet of autonomous-driving cars on California roads, following \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/19/594950197/uber-suspends-self-driving-tests-after-pedestrian-is-killed-in-arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last week's deadly crash\u003c/a> in Tempe, Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We decided to not reapply for a California DMV permit with the understanding that our self-driving vehicles would not operate on public roads in the immediate future,\" a spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17170138/uber-self-driving-california-dmv-permit-renew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told \u003c/a>The Verge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Uber_Comms/status/978440309053964288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voluntarily suspended\u003c/a> all of its self-driving programs in cities around the country. The current permit from the California DMV is set to expire on March 31, according to the Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV will soon begin evaluating permit applications for companies interested in launching self-piloted car tests, although the likelihood of approval appears to be slim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The DMV is allowed to begin issuing driverless testing and/or deployment permits on April 2, but that doesn't mean a manufacturer will meet the requirements or if we will approve them,\" a DMV spokesperson told The Verge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on Tuesday, chipmaker Nvidia Corp. announced it also will temporarily suspend self-driving tests, company spokesman Hector Marinez told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company supplies the chips for Uber's autonomous cars and has five test cars of its own operating in California and New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Although we developed our self-driving technology independently, as good engineering practice, we will wait to learn from Uber's incident. The entire industry will learn from this incident,\" Marinez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change in Uber's strategy follows a decision hours earlier by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to suspend testing in that state, where the fatal accident happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash, which occurred late at night in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she was walking her bicycle across a dimly lit city street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter sent Monday to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Ducey called the incident an \"unquestionable failure\" to meet public safety expectations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Scarpinato/status/978639521137942533\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local police chief initially called the incident \"unavoidable,\" but sentiment quickly changed after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/21/595941015/police-in-arizona-release-dashcam-video-of-fatal-crash-involving-self-driving-ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release of video of the crash\u003c/a>. The video, which depicts both internal and external views of the Uber vehicle, shows the car's safety driver looking down, away from the road, as a pedestrian suddenly emerges into the headlights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The governor cited the video on Monday in both his letter and tweets about the crash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I found the video to be disturbing and alarming, and it raises many questions about the ability of Uber to continue testing in Arizona,\" Ducey wrote in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/dougducey/status/978636729983778817\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged \u003ca href=\"https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20180320.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ongoing investigations\u003c/a> by the National Transportation Safety Board and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration but said Arizona \"must take action now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is unclear how exactly the Uber suspension will be enforced. Unlike California, Arizona does not have a permitting system for autonomous vehicles. An \u003ca href=\"https://azgovernor.gov/sites/default/files/related-docs/eo2018-04_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order\u003c/a> signed by Ducey earlier this month requires only that testers submit a statement to state regulators attesting to their vehicles' safety. The order did note, however, that \"nothing in this order establishes a right to operate an autonomous vehicle in Arizona.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a state Department of Transportation spokesperson, the suspension applies only to Uber. Arizona will continue to allow other companies to test autonomous vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, the announcement is a swift reversal for a state once called the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/20/595115055/arizona-governor-helped-make-state-wild-west-for-driverless-cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"Wild West\" of self-driving cars\u003c/a>. In 2016, Ducey welcomed Uber with \"open arms and wide open roads\" as the company sought alternatives to California's regulatory environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom/status/976215176323194880\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, Uber says it will continue to cooperate with investigators. A spokesperson for the company told NPR that federal investigators have the vehicle, along with data from its onboard cameras and sensors. The spokesperson stressed Uber's \"proactive\" steps in suspending testing after the crash, not only in Arizona but in all other test cities — Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the accident comes as yet another controversy for a company trying to \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-grab-breakingviews/breakingviews-uber-races-towards-ipo-with-southeast-asian-deal-idUSKBN1H208Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">position itself\u003c/a> for a public stock offering. The past year has seen Uber struggle through a \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-18/the-fall-of-travis-kalanick-was-a-lot-weirder-and-darker-than-you-thought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leadership crisis\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/21/565857184/uber-data-on-57-million-people-stolen-in-massive-hack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">massive data breach\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/06/531806891/uber-fires-20-employees-after-sexual-harassment-claim-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual harassment scandal\u003c/a>, and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/05/583367084/battle-over-self-driving-cars-goes-to-court-in-case-between-googles-waymo-and-ub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high-profile trial\u003c/a> ending in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/09/584522541/uber-googles-waymo-settle-case-over-trade-secrets-for-self-driving-cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">substantial concessions\u003c/a> to its competitor, Google subsidiary Waymo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Uber spokesperson says the company is unable to comment on details of the crash. 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"content": "\u003cp>Back \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/25/old-bay-bridge-piers-to-be-reused-as-public-boardwalk-vista-points/\">in January\u003c/a>, an important but rather obscure committee of state and regional transportation officials approved a Caltrans plan to turn four of the support piers from the Bay Bridge’s old eastern span into a pair of public parks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/tbpoc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee\u003c/a> imposed one rather important condition on its approval: The budget for the project, which involves some demolition along with the anticipated construction, was limited to $52 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans, along with officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and agencies on both sides of the bay, see the massive relics of the now-vanished span as a once-in-a-century opportunity to give the public access to areas just offshore of Oakland and Yerba Buena Island. The new parks would be great vantage points for taking in the workings of the Port of Oakland, for instance, and marveling at the $6.5 billion splendor of the new eastern span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday in San Francisco, Caltrans' chief bridge engineer Brian Maroney reported to the three-member oversight committee that the agency is ready to proceed with a slightly scaled-back version of the agency's original vision for the waterfront parks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To manage all the work in the project for $52 million -- to implode two of the half-dozen remaining piers, build a 600-foot walkway over the bay on three of the remaining piers near the Oakland shore and construct a massive viewing platform on a pier adjacent to Yerba Buena Island -- Maroney said a team of architects, engineers and contractors had to revise some of their more ambitious plans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After we went out and got bids, we were closer to 60 (million dollars) than we were to 52,\" Maroney told the panel. \"About two weeks ago, we had one of those 'come to Jesus' meetings, where everybody got together, and it was really tough. ... I made it clear I wasn't coming back here and asking for any more money.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get under the budget and include a 10 percent contingency -- a cushion for unforeseen expenses -- Maroney said the team identified eliminated some details of the original plan. For instance, a large parking lot and paved walkway leading to the Yerba Buena Island viewing platform was removed from the project and replaced by a simple crushed-gravel walkway. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although electrical connections will be provided for both the Oakland and Yerba Buena parks, no lighting will be installed. That's in part because the agencies that will manage the sites -- the East Bay Regional Park District and the Treasure Island Development Authority -- don't want them to be open at night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We identified items that if taken out, somebody in the future could put back in if they wanted,\" Maroney said. \"That was painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM.png\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-800x409.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"409\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-800x409.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-160x82.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-1020x521.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-1920x982.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-1180x603.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-960x491.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-240x123.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-375x192.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-520x266.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Caltrans rendering of the view from the existing Bay Bridge bike path to a planned park and recreational pier on the Oakland shoreline. \u003ccite>(Caltrans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maroney also said the general contractor on the job, Kiewit/Manson, had agreed to forego $2 million in their normal overhead and markup charges. \"They took a bite of the sandwich, too,\" Maroney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maroney added that Caltrans feels it's essential to start moving on the project immediately. The price of steel needed for the project has been changing rapidly because of the Trump administration's threats of tariffs against Chinese steel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Caltrans contractor told the agency last week that \"when they were getting quotes, they were literally getting quotes that only lasted for one hour.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More important, Maroney said the project has not yet obtained environmental approvals from the host of federal and state agencies, including the Bay Conservation and Development Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, that will need to sign off. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not have any permits to build this work,\" Maroney told the committee, adding that delays in approvals could threaten the Caltrans timeline to finish its in-water construction work by the end of the year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he was encouraged by recent meetings the agencies that permits could be expedited \"and we are asking, respectfully, to do things a little faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee unanimously granted Caltrans permission to sign contracts to proceed. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Back \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/25/old-bay-bridge-piers-to-be-reused-as-public-boardwalk-vista-points/\">in January\u003c/a>, an important but rather obscure committee of state and regional transportation officials approved a Caltrans plan to turn four of the support piers from the Bay Bridge’s old eastern span into a pair of public parks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://baybridgeinfo.org/tbpoc\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee\u003c/a> imposed one rather important condition on its approval: The budget for the project, which involves some demolition along with the anticipated construction, was limited to $52 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caltrans, along with officials from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and agencies on both sides of the bay, see the massive relics of the now-vanished span as a once-in-a-century opportunity to give the public access to areas just offshore of Oakland and Yerba Buena Island. The new parks would be great vantage points for taking in the workings of the Port of Oakland, for instance, and marveling at the $6.5 billion splendor of the new eastern span.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday in San Francisco, Caltrans' chief bridge engineer Brian Maroney reported to the three-member oversight committee that the agency is ready to proceed with a slightly scaled-back version of the agency's original vision for the waterfront parks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To manage all the work in the project for $52 million -- to implode two of the half-dozen remaining piers, build a 600-foot walkway over the bay on three of the remaining piers near the Oakland shore and construct a massive viewing platform on a pier adjacent to Yerba Buena Island -- Maroney said a team of architects, engineers and contractors had to revise some of their more ambitious plans. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"After we went out and got bids, we were closer to 60 (million dollars) than we were to 52,\" Maroney told the panel. \"About two weeks ago, we had one of those 'come to Jesus' meetings, where everybody got together, and it was really tough. ... I made it clear I wasn't coming back here and asking for any more money.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get under the budget and include a 10 percent contingency -- a cushion for unforeseen expenses -- Maroney said the team identified eliminated some details of the original plan. For instance, a large parking lot and paved walkway leading to the Yerba Buena Island viewing platform was removed from the project and replaced by a simple crushed-gravel walkway. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And although electrical connections will be provided for both the Oakland and Yerba Buena parks, no lighting will be installed. That's in part because the agencies that will manage the sites -- the East Bay Regional Park District and the Treasure Island Development Authority -- don't want them to be open at night. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We identified items that if taken out, somebody in the future could put back in if they wanted,\" Maroney said. \"That was painful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11658369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM.png\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-800x409.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"409\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11658369\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-800x409.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-160x82.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-1020x521.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-1920x982.png 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-1180x603.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-960x491.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-240x123.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-375x192.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Screen-Shot-2018-03-27-at-6.13.08-PM-520x266.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Caltrans rendering of the view from the existing Bay Bridge bike path to a planned park and recreational pier on the Oakland shoreline. \u003ccite>(Caltrans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maroney also said the general contractor on the job, Kiewit/Manson, had agreed to forego $2 million in their normal overhead and markup charges. \"They took a bite of the sandwich, too,\" Maroney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maroney added that Caltrans feels it's essential to start moving on the project immediately. The price of steel needed for the project has been changing rapidly because of the Trump administration's threats of tariffs against Chinese steel. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Caltrans contractor told the agency last week that \"when they were getting quotes, they were literally getting quotes that only lasted for one hour.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More important, Maroney said the project has not yet obtained environmental approvals from the host of federal and state agencies, including the Bay Conservation and Development Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, that will need to sign off. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do not have any permits to build this work,\" Maroney told the committee, adding that delays in approvals could threaten the Caltrans timeline to finish its in-water construction work by the end of the year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he was encouraged by recent meetings the agencies that permits could be expedited \"and we are asking, respectfully, to do things a little faster.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee unanimously granted Caltrans permission to sign contracts to proceed. If the agency's timeline holds up, the new shoreline park facilities could open to the public in about a year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Oakland shoreline, the new recreational pier would tie into a new shoreline park planned by the East Bay park district. Development of that site, on land immediately south of the Bay Bridge that was once part of the Oakland Army Base, is being held up by the need to clean up contaminants on the property.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Memes of a mild-mannered California legislator photoshopped as a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SaveMarinwood/status/976536870237556736\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek villain\u003c/a>. A San Francisco supervisor suggesting the city should sue the state, to “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-lawmaker-threatens-sue-state-transportation-development-bill-sb-827-passes/\" target=\"_blank\">thunderous applause\u003c/a>.” Wealthy Marin County homeowners and South Los Angeles tenants’ rights groups working as political bedfellows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of it is inspired by a wonky state housing bill yet to receive a single vote — and faces tough odds of passing the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827\" target=\"_blank\">SB 827\u003c/a>, sponsored by state Sen. 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Opponents see it as a blunt overreach of state power that would destroy the character of local communities while displacing long-established residents so developers could build more luxury condo towers for rich people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four things you should know about California’s most controversial housing bill in decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>This isn’t hype. If it becomes law, the bill could revolutionize California cities.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As currently written, SB 827 would essentially exempt all new housing built within half a mile of a train stop or quarter mile of a frequent bus stop from most local zoning rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if a city had zoned an area for single-family homes, developers could invoke the bill to build multifamily apartment buildings between four and eight stories high. It would also free those projects from parking requirements and other zoning rules frequently abused by cities to impede new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11657586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-800x1031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1031\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-160x206.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-240x309.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-375x483.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-520x670.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much area in major California cities would fall under the bill? That’s what makes this so radical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/SB%20827.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Preliminary analysis\u003c/a> by the San Francisco Planning Department shows that basically all — yes, all — of San Francisco and huge swaths of Los Angeles would lose their local zoning regulations. Ninety percent of San Francisco’s residential parcels would have a higher height limit for new development under the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more rigorous analysis of just how much developers would take advantage of the bill, and how it would apply to smaller California cities, has not yet been conducted. But the potential is huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, urbanists across the state have longed for the type of density SB 827 would bring. Despite major pushback from some quarters of his home city that San Francisco would become unrecognizable should the bill become law, Wiener has stressed that such density is good for cities like San Francisco, and the most effective way to combat the region’s astronomical housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Many environmentalists love this bill\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proponents of SB 827 say it has two primary goals: 1) to increase the supply of housing and thereby lower housing prices, and 2) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd11.senate.ca.gov/files/urban_planning_professor_support_for_sb_827.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Urban planning academics\u003c/a> and climate change activists argue the state can only meet its climate change goals — a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by the year 2030 — if it succeeds in getting people out of their cars and onto public transportation closer to where they work. Alternative energy sources and cleaner-burning power plants can only go so far: The leading cause of emissions nationally is the tailpipe. Building tons of housing in major job centers close to good transit seems like a sensible and necessary solution, they argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-800x456.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic backs up east of the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll plaza. One of the goals of SB 827 is to get more people living closer to mass transit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-960x547.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-240x137.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-375x214.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up east of the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll plaza. One of the goals of SB 827 is to get more people living closer to mass transit. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at least one prominent environmental group with a tradition of opposing new development has balked at the measure. Angering many climate change activists, California’s Sierra Club has argued the bill would only create more local hostility to future transportation projects and would displace low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-gentrification groups argue that communities whose residents have lower incomes are much more likely to ride a bus or take a subway to work than commuters who earn more money. If lower-income residents are exiled to the suburbs as a consequence of the bill, its success at cutting carbon emissions will be muted at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Anti-gentrification and tenants’ rights groups? Not so much\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Advocates for lower-income renters and urban communities of color have greeted SB 827 with a mixture of skepticism and hostility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of prominent Los Angeles anti-gentrification and civil rights groups signed onto a \u003ca href=\"http://allianceforcommunitytransit.org/l-a-community-organizations-oppose-sb-827/\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> opposing the bill last month on the grounds that it lacked sufficient protections for renters whose apartments could be demolished to make way for newer, bigger, market-rate projects. They also expressed the broader fear that “opening the floodgates” around transit corridors would mean rents around shiny new developments would rise out of reach of current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has addressed some of those concerns by amending the bill to include fairly strict renter protections. Developers who wish to demolish a renter-occupied unit would have to pay for the moving and living expenses of tenants for more than three years, and renters would have the right to move back into the new development at their old rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11657647 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. 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Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, is the sponsor of SB 827. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the changes have yet to attract broad support from major housing equity groups, who fear the larger gentrification pressures possibly unleashed from the bill. It also didn’t help that backers of SB 827 waited until after the bill’s announcement to try to court those groups’ endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The bill faces a very tough road in the Legislature — a road that goes through Marin County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bills that override local zoning control are rarely popular in the California Legislature. Homeowners in many regions of the state are, by and large, not thrilled with the idea of new apartment complexes going up next door over their objections. Homeowners are also more likely to vote than renters — a fact state legislators are acutely aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities and counties are stealth power players in Sacramento, and are also not fans of having their zoning power stripped away. Up and down the state, mayors, city council members and county supervisors have come out against the bill, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, lawmakers passed a handful of laws that encroached on the traditional zoning power of cities. But that housing package took a herculean effort to enact after years of failure, and importantly included new funding sources for subsidized housing, as well as tenants’ protections that attracted support from a wide coalition of housing groups. And the zoning process changes brought by those laws pale in comparison to what SB 827 could do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nowhere has opposition to state interference in local planning decisions been as fierce as in Marin County, an affluent northern suburb in the Bay Area. If the bill is to receive a full vote of the Legislature, it will first have to clear a committee controlled by Sen. Mike McGuire, a Democrat who represents Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGuire could prevent the bill from moving past his desk and receiving a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org/\">\u003cem>CALmatters.org\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Memes of a mild-mannered California legislator photoshopped as a \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SaveMarinwood/status/976536870237556736\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek villain\u003c/a>. A San Francisco supervisor suggesting the city should sue the state, to “\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-lawmaker-threatens-sue-state-transportation-development-bill-sb-827-passes/\" target=\"_blank\">thunderous applause\u003c/a>.” Wealthy Marin County homeowners and South Los Angeles tenants’ rights groups working as political bedfellows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of it is inspired by a wonky state housing bill yet to receive a single vote — and faces tough odds of passing the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB827\" target=\"_blank\">SB 827\u003c/a>, sponsored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, tries to force cities to build more dense housing around public transit hubs. The bill has received a remarkable level of media attention both within California and nationally, providing fodder for think pieces from Slate, Vox, The Boston Globe, Bloomberg and The New York Times — which \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/business/energy-environment/climate-density.html\" target=\"_blank\">called\u003c/a> it a “bold, divisive plan to wean Californians from cars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That attention has only amplified a loud and acrimonious debate over how the bill would transform California cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents see the bill as a radical and necessary step for the state to solve its endemic housing shortage and meet its ambitious climate change goals. Opponents see it as a blunt overreach of state power that would destroy the character of local communities while displacing long-established residents so developers could build more luxury condo towers for rich people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four things you should know about California’s most controversial housing bill in decades:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>This isn’t hype. If it becomes law, the bill could revolutionize California cities.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As currently written, SB 827 would essentially exempt all new housing built within half a mile of a train stop or quarter mile of a frequent bus stop from most local zoning rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if a city had zoned an area for single-family homes, developers could invoke the bill to build multifamily apartment buildings between four and eight stories high. It would also free those projects from parking requirements and other zoning rules frequently abused by cities to impede new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11657586\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-800x1031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1031\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-160x206.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-240x309.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-375x483.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/SFHousingMap-520x670.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much area in major California cities would fall under the bill? That’s what makes this so radical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/SB%20827.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Preliminary analysis\u003c/a> by the San Francisco Planning Department shows that basically all — yes, all — of San Francisco and huge swaths of Los Angeles would lose their local zoning regulations. Ninety percent of San Francisco’s residential parcels would have a higher height limit for new development under the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A more rigorous analysis of just how much developers would take advantage of the bill, and how it would apply to smaller California cities, has not yet been conducted. But the potential is huge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, urbanists across the state have longed for the type of density SB 827 would bring. Despite major pushback from some quarters of his home city that San Francisco would become unrecognizable should the bill become law, Wiener has stressed that such density is good for cities like San Francisco, and the most effective way to combat the region’s astronomical housing prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Many environmentalists love this bill\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Proponents of SB 827 say it has two primary goals: 1) to increase the supply of housing and thereby lower housing prices, and 2) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd11.senate.ca.gov/files/urban_planning_professor_support_for_sb_827.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Urban planning academics\u003c/a> and climate change activists argue the state can only meet its climate change goals — a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by the year 2030 — if it succeeds in getting people out of their cars and onto public transportation closer to where they work. Alternative energy sources and cleaner-burning power plants can only go so far: The leading cause of emissions nationally is the tailpipe. Building tons of housing in major job centers close to good transit seems like a sensible and necessary solution, they argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657641\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11657641\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-800x456.jpg\" alt=\"Traffic backs up east of the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll plaza. One of the goals of SB 827 is to get more people living closer to mass transit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-800x456.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-1020x581.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-1180x672.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-960x547.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-240x137.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-375x214.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/TrafficJam-520x296.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traffic backs up east of the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll plaza. One of the goals of SB 827 is to get more people living closer to mass transit. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at least one prominent environmental group with a tradition of opposing new development has balked at the measure. Angering many climate change activists, California’s Sierra Club has argued the bill would only create more local hostility to future transportation projects and would displace low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anti-gentrification groups argue that communities whose residents have lower incomes are much more likely to ride a bus or take a subway to work than commuters who earn more money. If lower-income residents are exiled to the suburbs as a consequence of the bill, its success at cutting carbon emissions will be muted at best.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Anti-gentrification and tenants’ rights groups? Not so much\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Advocates for lower-income renters and urban communities of color have greeted SB 827 with a mixture of skepticism and hostility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of prominent Los Angeles anti-gentrification and civil rights groups signed onto a \u003ca href=\"http://allianceforcommunitytransit.org/l-a-community-organizations-oppose-sb-827/\" target=\"_blank\">letter\u003c/a> opposing the bill last month on the grounds that it lacked sufficient protections for renters whose apartments could be demolished to make way for newer, bigger, market-rate projects. They also expressed the broader fear that “opening the floodgates” around transit corridors would mean rents around shiny new developments would rise out of reach of current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener has addressed some of those concerns by amending the bill to include fairly strict renter protections. Developers who wish to demolish a renter-occupied unit would have to pay for the moving and living expenses of tenants for more than three years, and renters would have the right to move back into the new development at their old rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11657647\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11657647 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, is the sponsor of SB 827.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/Wiener-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, is the sponsor of SB 827. \u003ccite>(Michelle Gachet/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the changes have yet to attract broad support from major housing equity groups, who fear the larger gentrification pressures possibly unleashed from the bill. It also didn’t help that backers of SB 827 waited until after the bill’s announcement to try to court those groups’ endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The bill faces a very tough road in the Legislature — a road that goes through Marin County\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bills that override local zoning control are rarely popular in the California Legislature. Homeowners in many regions of the state are, by and large, not thrilled with the idea of new apartment complexes going up next door over their objections. Homeowners are also more likely to vote than renters — a fact state legislators are acutely aware of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cities and counties are stealth power players in Sacramento, and are also not fans of having their zoning power stripped away. Up and down the state, mayors, city council members and county supervisors have come out against the bill, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, lawmakers passed a handful of laws that encroached on the traditional zoning power of cities. But that housing package took a herculean effort to enact after years of failure, and importantly included new funding sources for subsidized housing, as well as tenants’ protections that attracted support from a wide coalition of housing groups. 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Uber did not immediately comment on the driver's record.\n\u003cp>The Republic notes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The San Francisco-based company recently came under fire for hiring felons. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission company fined Uber's parent company $8.9 million in November 2017 after an investigation determined the ride-hailing service had hired nearly 60 drivers with previous felony convictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorado state law prevents individuals with felony convictions, alcohol or drug-related driving offenses, unlawful sexual offenses and major traffic violations from working for rideshare companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber attributed the unlawful hirings to a \"process area\" inconsistent with Colorado's ridesharing regulations. The company said all drivers must undergo a third-party background screening \"per Uber safety policies and Colorado state regulations.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post, last updated 2:25 p.m. Monday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber says it's suspending its testing of autonomous vehicles after one of its self-driving cars struck and killed a woman crossing a street in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board announced it is sending a four-member team to investigate the crash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California's Consumer Watchdog, which has criticized the state's plan to begin allowing testing of driverless vehicles on public roads beginning next month, called for a nationwide moratorium on the testing of what it called \"robot cars.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tempe police said Monday that the vehicle was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel late Sunday night when a woman walking outside a crosswalk was hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The victim, identified in media accounts as 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg of Mesa, was transported to a local hospital where she died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber acknowledged the fatality on Twitter, and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi extended condolences to the victim's family and said the company is cooperating with the investigation into the incident. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/dkhos/status/975778435455995905\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash occurred at Mill Avenue and Curry Road, a busy intersection near a Tempe music venue called the Marquee Theater. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/gboeing/status/975789089168355329\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber began testing its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco -- without notifying local or state authorities -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11231526/uber-to-state-weve-pulled-self-driving-cars-from-s-f-streets\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in December 2016\u003c/a>. The company backed down from operating the driverless SUVs -- one of which rolled through a red light downtown -- only after the California Department of Motor Vehicles moved to revoke the vehicles' registrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber shipped the cars to Arizona after Gov. Doug Ducey invited the company to test them there. It has also been conducting testing in Pittsburgh and Toronto. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Arizona fatality occurred just two weeks before the state of California opens public roads to autonomous vehicles with no driver on board. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the DMV \u003ca href=\"https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/auto\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finalized new regulations\u003c/a> for the operation of driverless vehicles and could begin issuing permits as early as April 2. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the DMV said agency officials \"are aware of the Uber crash in Arizona, but we have not been briefed on the details of the crash at this time. We plan to follow up with Uber to get more information.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumer Watchdog has said the DMV was wrong to move ahead with its new autonomous vehicle regulations and said the Sunday night incident shows the difficulty the driverless cars have responding safely to pedestrians, cyclists and human-driven vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There should be a national moratorium on all robot car testing on public roads until the complete details of this tragedy are made public and are analyzed by outside experts so we understand what went so terribly wrong,” John M. Simpson, the group’s privacy and technology project director, said in a statement. \"Arizona has been the wild west of robot car testing with virtually no regulations in place. That’s why Uber and (Alphabet's) Waymo test there. 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And for the most part, the conversation had proceeded without rancor -- or not much of it, anyway. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to thank everyone for being so nice,\" Eisen said to applause and laughter. \"This is unprecedented that people have been so civil.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after the laughter died down at last Thursday’s packed meeting at the Berkeley Adult School, Eisen rapidly summed up a situation that involves both her neighbors but people throughout the city and the entire Bay Area as housing prices soar due to the rapid growth of jobs in the region and the slow pace of new construction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My husband and I are part of the problem,\" she said. \"We bought our house 25 years ago. We raised our family. It’s now too big for us, but we want to stay in the neighborhood, and there’s really no choices for where we go. And our kids don’t have a prayer of ever being able to afford to live here. 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And so did West Berkeley resident and BART commuter Mike Pavone when he pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Someone said earlier that they thought an 85-foot building on this site would be ridiculous,\" Pavone said. \"What I think is ridiculous is a giant service-level parking lot surrounded by single-family homes at a station that’s 26 minutes from the core job centers in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alan Tobey, a \"smart growth\" activist who has lived near the station for more than 40 years said before the meeting he’s seen this debate before. Late 1960s plans for large-scale development at and near the North Berkeley station helped spark a neighborhood movement that stopped denser residential construction in most of the city. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The buildings on Hearst (Avenue) would have been 10 stories in a solid row down the street,\" Tobey said. 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