Today’s Headlines

> San Francisco Housing Crisis Roots

That article said nothing. “San Francisco has a lot of people. And it has a history of having a lot of people. We also have a housing crisis. The end.” What was that?

i think you’re supposed to click through to the Business Insider story at the end and see a bunch of sentences separated by giant shutterstock images.

So we allow people to drive on the freeway but do not allow them to be trained?

Blame Siri

Yes, basically. Our system of training,testing and licensing all rests on the judgement of the examiner. He/she sees you driving in a variety of situations and extrapolates that you’re OK to drive in all situations (but not all vehicles).

The alternative would be to have some type of two-phase training and testing where you get an initial license to drive on regular roads and then an “advanced” license to drive on freeways. Probably too expensive to run and too difficult to enforce.

Interestingly I was driving on I-80 yesterday and was passed by a bicyclist.

I-80 in downtown San Francisco, westbound. I think he got on around 4th Street and then worked his way over to the left hand lane, presumably because he wanted to take 101-South.

The traffic was crawling and so he was able to both pass cars and change lanes. Impressively ballsy, and he had a rather wild crazy look in his eyes.