This one’s new. I’m seeing it all over town. It makes me think of transparent dangling carrots, I’m srsly. It gives me an earworm is what I’m saying.
Oh what’s that, SFMTA – you don’t really want to weigh in on the Mideast, but the money’s just too good to say no?
Imagine a future SFMTA with 10,000 employees, which will happen soon enough. Maybe at that point it will start issuing foreign policy papers.
But until then, this ad program will just have to do…
Judge Lance regretted his dalliance with 25 series tires, so maybe you would too:
As seen in the Western Addition:
Wow
980 Market as seen from Market:
From a distance, I thought this was a school bus:
Some other similar ads mock interns loading data into SF all summer long, something like that.
So now Salesforce has become an ogre itself, like Oracle, Microsoft, or IBM? IDK about that.
The street triangles of the Outside Lands become an issue for the SFPD:
You see, the problem here is that there isn’t any church around to persuade the SFMTA about how it’s OK to park next to a median, oh well…
No no, no silly names for UBER Technologies, like, IDK, PLATYPUS from the GM Cruise people. Just straight up science, like something out of Breaking Bad:
Now let’s rack out to see the more of this new robot car, seen being driven at California and Sansome yesterday:
The Future is Now…
Here’s your Construction Closure Advisory:
If you want to see the concomitant propaganda for Supervisor London Breed and Rec & Park, click here.
In mitigation, this whole deal is kind of a nothingburger – they’ll put up a few signs (but not speed limit signs for bike riders, cause, oh no, we wouldn’t want that, no sir) and I guess paint a kind of crosswalk for peds, to signal cyclists that peds cross over the bike path.
(IOW, RPD won’t do jack about the Panhandle’s Southern Path, which is in atrocious condition, ’cause, ’cause, give us more money, is what RPD says. There was a plan to put in irrigation first and then resurface the Oak Street area path, but the irrigation isn’t happening anytime soon, oh well. So I guess when joggers file claims against us, you know, after they fall down due to all the wavy waves of the pavement, RPD / SFGov just pays them off no big deal? Man, RPD is pretty fucked up, I’ll tell you. Anyway, I guess I’ll see joggers take tumbles on a weekly basis from now to eternity.)
Also in mitigation, they’ll open the bike path back up during commuting hours, which is pretty easy since they aren’t really doing anything significant, like widening the paved area to make the bike path 16 feet wide why not, you know, to reflect the increased usage the past decade or two?
Anyway, enjoy your underfunded “pedestrian safety” project, Frisco.
(Which is not to say I’m against painting something to tell some of our more aggressive bike riders to look out for peds in certain areas, but doing this kind of thing is an easy job, not one what requires a million thanks to glorious London Breed, and hey, why not vote for her soon, is basically what RPD is saying.
I mean, take a look:
A certain type of roadie bike rider, who doesn’t want to break stride/cadence/whatever starts seeing red when he (generally he, overwhelmingly, like I can’t ever recall hearing a woman swearing at or seeing one crash into Panhandle peds) sees something like the above, oh well.)
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Well, here you go, as ably told by San Francisco Chronicle scribe Carolyn Said:
Starship robots try out deliveries on SF sidewalks
And here’s the scene, yesterday:
Kind of cute, I suppose. Like something out of 1973’s Sleepers:
This passerby was fascinated – she couldn’t get enough of this:
And in the world capital of illegally parked Mercedes Benzes, what do we find on the sidewalks of the Outside Lands, of the Great Sand Wastes of the Middle Richmond, but this? The little robot took a while to think and then simply went around the scofflaw’s car, easy peasy:
And of course, Facebook, Twitter and some video of this press event here.
Is this The Future?
If SFGov were serious about “Vision Zero” 2024, which it’s not, it would have already started with SFGov traffic.
Oh well.
Tres complicated!
