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2023-09-02
The Silicon Valley billionaire-backed scheme to build a 21st century utopian city on agricultural land on the edge of the Bay Area has a name and a website featuring the first renderings of what the dreamland might look like. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2023-09-02 View on X
New York Times

California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that wants to build a city in the Bay Area's Solano County, unveiled a website explaining its plans

A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech.  He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley's wealthiest people.

The initiative's name — California Forever — was unveiled after a two-week period in which the group's acquisition of 55,000 acres in Southeast Solano County has come under fire. Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ... [image]
2023-09-02 View on X
New York Times

California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that wants to build a city in the Bay Area's Solano County, unveiled a website explaining its plans

A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech.  He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley's wealthiest people.

The first renderings from California Forever evoke a cityscape with a dreamy white stucco and red rooftop Mediterranean vibe you might find in a Greek or Italian village. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2023-09-02 View on X
New York Times

California Forever, the company backed by tech billionaires that wants to build a city in the Bay Area's Solano County, unveiled a website explaining its plans

A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech.  He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley's wealthiest people.

2023-06-21
Top artificial intelligence experts urged President Joe Biden Tuesday to create a “moonshot moment” for the expanding industry in San Francisco, one that would enable it to grow while creating guardrails to ensure its power is harnessed for good. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2023-06-21 View on X
MIT Technology Review

A look at the recent debates in the AI industry over existential risks, as what were once considered extreme views have now become mainstream talking points

“Ghost stories are contagious.”  —  Who's afraid of the big bad bots?  A lot of people, it seems.

2023-04-12
The jam, which occurred shortly before 6 a.m., was the latest traffic disruption by robotaxis that are now ubiquitous in city streets, baffling motorists who flashed headlights and gingerly squeezed around the vehicles. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2023-04-12 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Recent autonomous vehicle snafus in San Francisco include five Waymo cars jamming an intersection and Cruise recalling software last week after an AV hit a bus

Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle :

Five self-driving vehicles stopped early Tuesday morning in the middle of a residential street, clogging a right lane of San Aleso Avenue down to the crosswalk, with one car straddling the center lane. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2023-04-12 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Recent autonomous vehicle snafus in San Francisco include five Waymo cars jamming an intersection and Cruise recalling software last week after an AV hit a bus

Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle :

Five self-driving vehicles stopped early Tuesday morning in the middle of a residential street in San Francisco's Balboa Terrace neighborhood. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2023-04-12 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Recent autonomous vehicle snafus in San Francisco include five Waymo cars jamming an intersection and Cruise recalling software last week after an AV hit a bus

Rachel Swan / San Francisco Chronicle :

2023-02-18
Bird, a scooter company permitted to operate 1,500 electric vehicles for rent in San Francisco, is scooting out of town. It informed the San Francisco Municipal Transportation that it's giving up on the notoriously bureaucratic city. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2023-02-18 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Bird ends its operations in San Francisco saying the city's fines are five to six times higher than any other city and “has the most onerous regulations”

scooters in the Bay, blocking sidewalks, in encampments, and ridden by children, no helmets, and wobbly tourists everywhere they shouldn't be. ⁦@Gregster56⁩ https://www.sfchronicle...

OPINION: Even if you're not a scooter user and find them more annoying than appealing, Bird's departure should spark concern. It's just one more example of San Francisco making it far too hard to do business here, writes Heather Knight. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2023-02-18 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Bird ends its operations in San Francisco saying the city's fines are five to six times higher than any other city and “has the most onerous regulations”

scooters in the Bay, blocking sidewalks, in encampments, and ridden by children, no helmets, and wobbly tourists everywhere they shouldn't be. ⁦@Gregster56⁩ https://www.sfchronicle...

“San Francisco has the most onerous regulations and is the most difficult to operate in of the hundreds of markets we operate in globally,” Maggie Hoffman, Bird's vice president of city growth and strategy, said. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2023-02-18 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Bird ends its operations in San Francisco saying the city's fines are five to six times higher than any other city and “has the most onerous regulations”

scooters in the Bay, blocking sidewalks, in encampments, and ridden by children, no helmets, and wobbly tourists everywhere they shouldn't be. ⁦@Gregster56⁩ https://www.sfchronicle...

2022-12-26
The law is among the hundreds of new state laws taking effect in 2023 and specifically targets the electric-car maker's marketing of software included in some Tesla models that imply that the car can fully drive itself — which it can't. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2022-12-26 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

A new California law effectively bans dealers and carmakers like Tesla from “deceptively naming or marketing” semi-autonomous vehicles as full self-driving

Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  A Tesla with Full Self-Driving software was reportedly responsible …

Starting next year, Tesla will effectively be banned from advertising its vehicles as Full Self-Driving under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this legislative session. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2022-12-26 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

A new California law effectively bans dealers and carmakers like Tesla from “deceptively naming or marketing” semi-autonomous vehicles as full self-driving

Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  A Tesla with Full Self-Driving software was reportedly responsible …

2022-12-25
The law is among the hundreds of new state laws taking effect in 2023 and specifically targets the electric-car maker's marketing of software included in some Tesla models that imply that the car can fully drive itself — which it can't. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2022-12-25 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

A new California law effectively bans Tesla and other carmakers from deceptively naming or marketing their semi-autonomous vehicles as full self-driving

Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  A Tesla with Full Self-Driving software was reportedly responsible for causing …

Starting next year, Tesla will effectively be banned from advertising its vehicles as Full Self-Driving under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this legislative session. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2022-12-25 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

A new California law effectively bans Tesla and other carmakers from deceptively naming or marketing their semi-autonomous vehicles as full self-driving

Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate  —  A Tesla with Full Self-Driving software was reportedly responsible for causing …

2022-04-06
For Uber, the San Francisco taxi partnership provides hundreds of additional drivers. For cab drivers, it brings additional customers. For riders, it increases the supply of cars. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2022-04-06 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Uber signs with Yellow Cab SF and Flywheel Technologies to bring all of San Francisco's 1,075 taxis to its app in the coming months, after a similar deal in NYC

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle :

Uber signed a deal with Yellow Cab SF and Flywheel Technologies, meaning that Bay Area passengers who summon an Uber ride might see one of the city's 1,075 taxis show up to ferry them in the coming months. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2022-04-06 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Uber signs with Yellow Cab SF and Flywheel Technologies to bring all of San Francisco's 1,075 taxis to its app in the coming months, after a similar deal in NYC

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle :

2021-08-23
The goal of the fund, which began in 2017, is part of a worker-to-worker approach to grassroots fundraising that its founders hope will be a new front in the burgeoning tech labor movement. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2021-08-23 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Profile of The Solidarity Fund by Coworker, which donated $112,000 to 44 tech workers in $2,500 increments, with the goal of supporting labor organizing efforts

2021-08-22
The goal of the fund, which began in 2017, is part of a worker-to-worker approach to grassroots fundraising that its founders hope will be a new front in the burgeoning tech labor movement. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2021-08-22 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Profile of The Solidarity Fund by Coworker, which donated $112,000 to 44 tech workers in $2,500 increments, with the goal of supporting labor organizing efforts

Otavio Camargo's luck had run out, a few times.  Working as a mover for the startup Lugg, the cargo van he relied on for work was stolen. Tweets: @willysolis357 , @sfchronicle , @c...

2021-04-06
A third of California drivers declined more than 80% of their ride requests, making the service unreliable, Uber said this week. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2021-04-06 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Uber says driver price-naming and destination previewing policies it introduced last year in California have hurt its business, and is considering ending both

Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle : Tweets: @csaid , @gigworkersrise , @sarah_stierch , @kateconger , @sfchronicle , @davidzipper , @reinh , @gigwc , @ssmith_calabor , @davel...

2021-04-03
Bernie, a Labrador retriever, trained for two years to be a service animal. “He was clean, well behaved, very quiet and always under my control,” said his owner, who is legally blind. Yet when she would summon an Uber, they would get refused. https://www.sfchronicle.com/ ...
2021-04-03 View on X
San Francisco Chronicle

Arbitrator orders Uber to pay $1.1M to blind woman denied rides due to her guide dog, rejecting Uber's defense that it isn't liable for gig drivers' conduct