SF News Google's Robot Car Passes Driver's License Test In Nevada Nevada, America's one stop shop for all sorts of bad ideas, has issued a license to an autonomous vehicle that is most definitely not a human being. One of Google's driverless Priuses that
SF News Pedestrian Hit By Car In Mission Terrace Yet another person was stuck by a driver, this time in Mission Terrace. An unidentified female was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle in the city's Mission Terrace neighborhood last night.
Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: I Drive Everywhere by D. Hanousek As I switched on the gas to run down to Safeway (three short, but steep blocks away) to buy the required Italian-flavored breadcrumbs to make Cauliflower a la Basso's, I
SF News San Francisco's NYE Sobriety Checkpoint Revealed Billed "Avoid the 8" by SFPD, police will check for lushes behind the wheel this New Year's Eve at 8th and Folsom Streets. It will begin at 8:30 p.m. and end
SF News No, You May Not Use Your Cell Phone at a Red Light, Court Rules Answering that phone call or shooting off a quick text while waiting for the light to change can still net you hefty ticket, a state appeals court ruled yesterday. In a ruling that
SF News Driver High on PCP Hits Pedestrians Egads, people. A driver flying high on PCP last Friday ran into two pedestrians near City College. "Officers arriving at the scene of the crash in the 400 block of Geneva Avenue at
SF News Drunk Woman Crashes Into Fire Station Drunk drivers. They're the scum on the Earth, right? Right. Well, what about if you're a drunk driver who gets in a car with your daughter and then crashes into a fire house?
SF News Drunk Driver, Drunk Cyclist Collide Gee, this is harrowing. Two fools who crashed into each other over the weekend were allegedly both drunk while riding their preferred modes. "Jose Luna, 40, of Redwood City was turning from northbound
SF News Livermore Road Rage Incident Leads To Alleged Homicide Cort Holbrook, 41, who The Chronicle notes works as an engineer, was arrested yesterday afternoon under suspicion of murder for allegedly stabbing another driver during a traffic-related dispute in Livermore. The victim drove
SF News DUI Checkpoint Alert: Saturday Night at Geary and 9th Avenue SFPD has alerted the media that they'll be setting up a DUI checkpoint out in this Richmond this Saturday night at Geary Blvd and 9th Ave. There's always a tiny moral quandary whenever
SF News Reckless Bayview Car Crash Kills Driver At around 7:30 p.m. last night, a speeding car crashed into a parked truck, killing the driver. "A gold Saturn station wagon was traveling at a 'high rate of speed' when
SF News Audi Driver Arrested for Red Light-Running Death on Geary Boulevard At around 2:15 a.m. this morning, a 31-year-old man driving an Audi A4 ran a red light on Geary at Arguello, slamming into a car and killing the driver. "The suspect
SF News Woman Shot In S.F. After Refusing To Pull Over A woman is in critical condition this morning after being shot by Daly City police in San Francisco on Saturday night. According to reports, police tried to pull over the woman in her
SF News Teen Joy Rides Through Downtown S.F. With Dachshund SF Appeal has details on quite a thrilling story that came up on the wire yesterday afternoon involving a 15-year-old girl who was pulled over on Wednesday for driving recklessly through downtown. The
SF News New Year's Eve Fatalities Up, DUIs Down The CHP made 64 DUI-related arrests in the Bay Area during New Year's Eve this year, as opposed to 92 last year. Four fatal collisions occurred in the Bay Area between 6 p.
SF News Lots of People Arrested For Drunk Driving Over Christmas Holiday During last weekend's tribute to Christ's birth, many people were pinched for driving while smashed. BCN (via SF Appeal) reports: "In the period spanning from 6 p.m. Dec. 24 through midnight on
misc Let's Not Get All Nogged Up and Drive, San Francisco We're coming in to the thick of the Holiday season here (or perhaps more accurately: Holiday Party Season) and the authorities in San Francisco will be celebrating accordingly with their traditional 17 day
SF News Peninsula Folks Loathe S.F. Commuter Toll Plan The San Francisco Transportation Authority's plan to charge commuters a toll of up to $6 to drive into/out of the S.F. during certain hours has (rightfully) come under fire. San Mateo
SF News S.F. Toll Between Peninsula and the City? While tolls for folks coming into the city makes perfect sense, paying to leave San Francisco sounds bizarre, right? After all, San Francisco is so special that one should be rewarded for taking
SF News Newsom Announces City's Toyota Prius Partnership With Wild Gesticulation In front of City Hall at a "green vehicle showcase," Mayor Gavin Newsom yesterday announced a partnership between San Francisco and Toyota to advertise their Prius plug-in hybrids. And, as with anything carrying
SF News Car Rams Into Visitacion Valley Bus Shelter A little after 9:30 this morning, a vehicle crashed into a bus shelter in Visitacion Valley at San Bruno and Arleta Avenue. CBS 5 reports, "Four Five people were hurt, and three
SF News Man Acquitted In Hit & Run of <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> Fan Tamara Barak Aparton, our favorite civil servant scribe, cut another shiny gem for us today. See, after a three-day trial, 33-year-old Jose Sanchez, accused of hitting a Mission District pedestrian with his minivan
SF News Driver Chatting On Cellphone Drives Into River, Dies On Saturday, according to The Chronicle, an Antioch woman "drove off a boat ramp and into the Sacramento River while she was talking on a cell phone with her daughter, asking for directions,
SF News SF Drivers Face 60% Vehicle Registration Increase, Congestion Tax by Jerry James Stone Being a car owner in SF is about to get a lot more annoying if increased registration fees are approved in November. One increases state vehicle license registration fees
SF News 90-Year-Old Man Drives, Crashes Car Into Glen Park Backyard Oh jeez. At the risk of sounding ageist, a 90-year-old man is responsible for this early AM scene in Glen Park. Why? Because he's a 90-YEAR-OLD MAN DRIVING A CAR. Glen Park News
