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Cruise is now testing driverless cars on the streets of San Francisco with nobody at the wheel. That’s right–no longer is there a person sitting in the driver’s seat, hands floating over the steering wheel ready to take over if the computers try to, for example, plow into a woman walking her bicycle. Here’s a promotional video from Cruise: Streetsblog wants to know how you feel walking, biking, and taking transit with cars now driving around with nobody in the driver’s seat. To get the conversation going, Streetsblog checked in with some leading advocates and analysts.

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and lower polk neighbors for cbd. now, in the last development agreement, 1.1 million was listed. okay, nothing is listed now. this is something that they asked for that the supervisor worked on and also would substitute for city money would that go toward cbd implementation. the last time that a cbd was attempted with city money, the property owners rejected it. and [speaker not understood] they actually approve it, it should be recognized by those concerned about affordable housing and there is a consensus what these fees they charge themselves would be pass throughs to rental tena...

the biggest obstacle is empty streets and empty parking lots [speaker not understood]. if you drive your car, some patience is expected and required. i believe the approval process has worked allowing [speaker not understood]. i urge you to allow this project to move forward to residents of the tenderloin have a reason to be hopeful [speaker not understood]. thank you. >> thank you very much. mr. cavanagh. good afternoon, supervisor chiu and supervisor kim, and supervisor wiener. my representative from district 8. my name is dave cavanagh. i am a registered nurse who works on the f...

impair/substantially impair the use of the square. that is the criteria we used >> how do you define that? what is the purpose of studying shadow if we say that shadow doesn't substantially impair of the use of that space? >> i think that for ceqa analysis, we are not looking necessarily at activitis that are very infrequent, you know? people are still able to pass through that square and sit in that square and reflect and eat their lunch there and i think at the times of day, we did a survey about the use of that square in making this determination and that was our conclusion. >> it...