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Thursday, August 17, 2017

About Unsafe Uber, Cruise, Food Delivery Robots, Drivers, Bikers -SF Streets/Sidewalks

February 10, 2019 Update:   

    Scroll Down this blog page, to get to the Excerpt & Links to NBC News Report on $10M Wrongful Death Lawsuit by Elaine Herzberg's Family Against City of Tempe, Arizona.   May she rest in peace.

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Note:   This is an update of the Venga Empanadas Red Zone Bad Driving Story and more information about how Ride Share, Food Delivery and Robot Vehicles and Bike Riders steal space, cause traffic delays, annoy locals and steal local cash flows from our city --  while endangering the lives of us all,  every day.
 
 **UPDATE:   WED AUGUST 16, 2017  -  Vehicle Parked Safely in Same Spot without Blocking Fire Department Water Supplies: 

  Here is a Twitter Post (from yesterday) showing a car parked in the same location that is parked legally and safely,  without blocking the Red Zone.

          It's the spot in front of Ferguson's Plumbing Show Room, between our beloved Samovar Tea and Venga Empanadas.

   Many folks don't realize that every time they park illegally,  they are unjustly putting the rest of us in harm's way.  

     In 1906,  over 250,000 San Franciscans became homeless overnight, due to fires caused by The Great Earthquake.     We are a densely packed city with lots of timber homes and buildings.  

    Our fire crews must be able to access all red zone spaces, intersections and alley ways to fight fires.

     Anyone who blocks a red zone or parks on sidewalks that block doors or block path ways needed for emergency responders, is putting all of our lives at risk.

    Many folks drive and park as they wish or whatever is cheapest or more convenient for their need to 'rush' to make money or do ride share or food delivery jobs that create less income for them and more stress than real solid wage earning jobs.

     Their 'rush' to chase money demonstrates a self centeredness and selfishness and thoughtlessness that cause hundreds of thousands of accidents annually, from coast to coast.

    Newcomers don't realize for example, that when it rains after dry, dusty spells here,  transformers on pole tops explode and catch on fire.

      Often next to buildings and in alleys and 'tight spaces' where fire fighters MUST be able to get to and extinguish before the fire(s) jump from poles to the tops of residential and commercial buildings.

     Uber, Lyft or delivery drivers who block red zones, block alleys and sidewalks and building doors ARE CREATING SAFETY HAZARDS EVERY DAY AND NIGHT HERE -- FOR US ALL -- TO PLEASE THE FOR PROFIT, NOT-FROM-HERE CORPORATE & INVESTOR MASTERS THAT  CARE MORE ABOUT PROFITS THAN PEOPLE'S LIVES HERE.

     NEVER FORGET DOMINO'S PIZZA DELIVERY DRIVERS WERE 'RUSHED' IN THEIR DELIVERIES UNTIL THEY WERE SUED FOR MAIMING AND KILLING PEOPLE IN WRONGFUL DEATHS

   "Runnin' for Money, Killin' For Cash"

   Let's recall that Domino's Pizza's 30 Minute Delivery or Free Pizza Guarantee activities caused many accidents and wrongful death (even to a child) and was sued for their Hazardous Business Practices.

Domino's Kidnapping Death Case Link
   One law suit was for $10 Million Dollars.

  Today's corporations are Repeating the same pressures for profits that push Drivers and business staff and owners (vis a disruptive business models, apps, renegade illegal operations) into breaking all of our laws and traditions and behaviors that keep us safe.



   This lawsuit was for $78 Million Dollars for Wrongful Death:  

Domino's Ends Fast-Pizza Pledge After Big Award to Crash Victim



     So, if you block the Rondel Place (alley) door to Taqueria Pancho Villas Restaurant or the sidewalk marked No Parking while doing deliveries and a fire breaks out and people die because you blocked access,  do you have the insurance to pay for the damages caused and the lives lost ?  


UBER LYFT DRIVERS (AND OTHERS IN A RUSH IN TOO DENSE, GENTRIFIED AREAS) ARE HAZARDOUS IN MANY WAYS: 

http://www.wkyc.com/news/hazards-for-hire-recalls-ignored-by-taxis-uber-and-lyft/355340346
Cleveland's WKYC TV Investigative Report
Check out this WKYC TV Cleveland, Ohio investigation news posting:

Hazards for Hire: Recalls ignored by taxis, Uber and Lyft



    Can you live with yourself making an extra $20 bucks or saving 15 minutes of time at the expense of the life of another innocent human being ?

     An innocent human being that had a right to be safe from thoughtless, selfish or careless drivers, like you ?


      Will Uber or Lyft or XYZ Foodie App Delivery Company PAY for your negligent parking that resulted in death law suit ?


    Underpaid, financially desperate "independent" and unlivable wage Individuals make thousands of 'trips' in our city in 2017.    2,190 trips in the Valencia Street Corridor Area alone for ride shares.

Unsafe Domino's Driver In England
  
 These stressed out, hungry drivers are in reality,  'running for money' and 'killing for cash' today, in 2017, just as other companies like Domino's Pizza did back in the 1980's 1990's.

   Today, we have Repackaged, app driven 'new' services that endanger us all for corporate profits and theft of our local cash flows are the same bad models that plagued us (and put us into deep debt) in the 1980's and the 1990's.

   Same pigs with new glossier make up on.  Nothing new under the sun, children.  You must each analyze the cash you are making working as an independent contractor.

    Add up the hours spent with down time.   Add up the stress and loss of sleep in your life.


 Add up the risks and potential or likely losses you will suffer for insurance payments, deductibles, blown tires, parking tickets, tows, conflicts with pedestrians, bikers and locals you annoy & put into harm's way.

   This is the negative impact you have on our community --  every time you run a red light, speed down residential areas, cut off pedestrians; block sidewalks and occupy metered spaces without paying your fair share.

      You are more of a liability than an asset to yourself and your family and our community at large because of the bad choices you keep making as your drive round and round our city.

 
 Add up your tax liabilities and wear and tear costs on your tires, vehicles and the wear and tear on your own body if you are in pollution filled traffic, idling your engines with eyes glued to an app device,  putting yourself at risk for peanuts in wages or worse,  just to end the year of work in deeper debt and misery than you were before you went to chase the money in your car, working for foreign owned (not from here) corporations.

    How often do you see these Drivers IDLING THEIR ENGINES parked on sidewalks in No Parking Zones or in Metered Spaces without paying meter fees for many minutes of a half hour or more,  EVERY DAY all over the city ?

     These inconsiderate drivers don't honor need to Spare The Air as they idle their engines for many minutes or a half hour or more -- usually while blocking sidewalks, parking in Red Zones or in metered spaces without even paying the meters.  

    Unfortunately,  children, babies in strollers and pets get hit with the exhaust the most -- while you are on the sidewalks because they are lower to the ground,  closer to the exhaust pipes of these idling cars.


 HOW OFTEN ARE YOU HOLDING YOUR CELL WHILE HOLDING OR WALKING YOUR BABIES AND PETS ?


   CELL PHONE ABANDONMENT  --  LONELY BABIES AND DOGS

     Many of you are preoccupied with your hand held devices and phones and often fail to give YOUR FULL ATTENTION to the pets, babies and children you are with as you walk distracted (and ignorant) down the sidewalks and into crosswalks full of hazards all around you.

       When your dog or baby gets sick or hurt or depressed by your Cell Phone Abandonment of them,   it's too late to say you were sorry,  for not paying attention to the real lives and hazards around you that you could have protected them from, had you been paying attention properly.


    THEFT OF SPACE;  PARKING METER REVENUE; LOCAL CASH FLOWS; BLOCKING OF LOCAL BUSINESS OWNERS & REGULAR CUSTOMERS IN GENTRIFIED AREAS OF OUR CITY BY NOT-FROM-HERE CORPORATIONS FOR MEGA PROFITS AND COST CUTTING -- AT OUR EXPENSE & PERIL


    Local business owners, customers and tourists can't access our local businesses and the regular and commercial parking spaces in front of them because they are illegally occupied by non-paying space takers working for corporations that do not follow our laws who are taking away our local cash flows for investors and the elite. 

     Less local access, less cash flow, more time wasted, more congestion, more pollution to benefit the corporate masters who run all these 'cool' disruptive technologies and high tech apps and services.  

    They are all carpet bagging failures to our local economy and its people.

     Autonomous cars are not the answer.

   When a moving vehicle hits me or my family, children, pets or neighbors I want a HUMAN BEING to be responsible for their human conduct.

     I don't want a corporate pay off for bad acts caused by machines on our streets and sidewalks.

    I want our local people everywhere (underemployed, underpaid, homeless, capable disabled folks, veterans, et al.) to replace machines when we have so many idle people underemployed and underpaid.


    I urge you all to Read the Book AND attend the New Live Theatre Productions of "1984" to see how many of you have been misled into trusting corporate machine ideology, schemes and doomed-to-abuse-and-fail business models that many of you now work for or do business with, in 2017. 


         Or look for Movie Theater Screenings of "1984", as many theaters did on April 4, 2017.

1984 Movie Shown in Protest Apr 4, 2017
   The mass showings were in Protest of the Trump Administration and current state of affairs between our people and new high tech corporations and 'revolving door' government employees working for the elite.

     It was a sign of protest against gentrification and elite controls, intrusions and disruptions of our privacy, freedoms, lives, families, communities, education, homes, economies and medical care and public services and technologies we see all around us today.

Pic Linked To "1984" Film Story

    List of Theaters who showed "1984" in protest of today's Trump Administration and all that entails April 4, 2017:  




     Here in San Francisco, we see autonomous cars blocking crosswalks against the light (with no one behind them) while The Driver (the second line of safety) was busy on his cell phone,  not paying attention to the fact he was blocking the crosswalk in the midst of children, dogs and families all around.


   VIDEO OF ROBOT CAR FAILING AT 16TH & VALENCIA STREETS - SF MISSION DISTRICT   --  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMqgINuuLKDOPYxzyginT-HmIYDPHqsnr


They also fail to move to the center of the intersection to wait to make left handed turns which causes more delays and more anxious drivers behind them to 'run the red light' with as many as 3 or 4 other cars racing to run the red lights on these turns after being delayed by robot cars or gigantic and noisy Corporate mega-buses.    


Driverless Uber Car Crashes
     The machine failed.   The human driver failed.  

      In Congested Places near humans and animals, machines can maim and kill in seconds without warning.   

    Who is responsible ?     A human behind a wheel in control or a corporate machine, out of control ?


    Arizona Uber Self-Driving Car Crash Story: 


    When we place machines in close contact with humans and animals on our streets and sidewalks, we are being placed at great unknown risks, for corporate profits. 

     I'm sick of having bikes locked up to parking meters,  causing folks to have to stand or navigate around them. Elder & disabled people have difficulty getting in and out of cars when there are bikes locked up illegally to parking meters.    

*** FEBRUARY 10, 2019 -  UPDATE:

NBC NEWS REPORT:

    $10 Million Dollar Law Suit Against the City of Tempe, Arizona for the Wrongful Death of Elaine Herzberg, who was killed by a Felon Driver speeding Uber Robot Car on Autonomous Mode, in Tempe, Arizona.

    The car's 'Emergency Brake Function' was 'disengaged' so the cat 'saw her' but ran her over anyway.  Elaine ws walking her bike across a high pedestrian traffic area, adjacent to a biking/hiking trail area well known to locals.  She was Two Seconds away from being safe on the sidewalk when the Uber Robot Car ran her over and did not stop, according to the Dash Cam which shows it all.

      Story Excerpt:


TEMPE, Ariz. — Two relatives of a woman killed when she was struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle have filed a $10 million claim against the ...
    LINK:  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/relatives-woman-killed-self-driving-uber-crash-file-10m-claim-n966971

   Google Search:  Elaine Herzberg Tempe Arizona


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*** MARCH 31, 2018 - UPDATE: 

     I'm sick of seeing stessed out, often hazardous and violent -- Underpaid (average $3.37 per hour per MIT Study) App Delivery Drivers park on the sidewalk and BLOCK the RESIDENTIAL RONDEL PLACE (alley) that is along side Taqueria Pancho Villas Restaurant and the (new) BOND BAR (former Este Noche Cantina)


     Yesterday, a resident that lives at the end of RONDEL PLACE told us not long ago, they called 9-1-1 for a family member and THE AMBULANCE WAS DELAYED AND COULD NOT DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD TO THE FAMILY'S HOME BECAUSE APP FOOD DELIVERY VEHICLES GOING INTO PANCHO VILLAS BLOCKED THE AMBULANCE AND THE S.F.P.D. PATROLS RESPONDING TO THE -LIFE & DEATH- 9-1-1 CALL.

     OUTRAGEOUS & UNACCEPTABLE.   -   THE CITY HAS FAILED TO KEEP THE -NO PARKING- LAWS ENFORCED AND HAVE FAILED TO PAINT THE CURBS RED OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS OR MORE.

 NO PERSON IN SAN FRANCISCO SHOULD DIE BECAUSE OF AN ILLEGALLY PARKED, FOR PROFIT FOOD APP DELIVERY, UBER, LYFT OR ANY OTHER DRIVER WHO PARKS THEIR CARS ON OUR SIDEWALKS AND BLOCK OUR PEDESTRIAN AND VEHICLE RIGHT-OF-WAYS.

 BEFORE THIS WOMAN BIKER (ELAINE HERZBERG) WAS KILLED BY THE SPEEDING, UNATTENDED UBER AUTONOMOUS ROBOT CAR IN TEMPE, ARIZONA --  WE STARTED UP THIS NEW -BAD DRIVERS- BLOG PAGE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA:

   We started this in February 2018  -- Before the Arizona Death:  

    https://sfbaddrivers.blogspot.com/

     When the Failure of our City to maintain and enforce parking and public safety laws on our streets results in renegage app drivers killing our own people,  we will post each critical injury or death on our blogs for the whole world to see.

   SHAME ON YOU CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO FOR LETTING THESE LAWLESS CORPORATIONS AND DRIVERS TO OPERATE ON OUR STREETS, IN THE FIRST PLACE. 


   New Technology's Impact On Personal Injury Law Article: 


    I don't want to share walking space with motorized robots or other for profit hazards like the reckless bike delivery app riders who jump curbs and cruise on sidewalks like they were superior to us all.

    Pets, children, joggers and the disabled and mentally ill or folks under the influence of drugs or liquor or distracted folks can run out from behind a doorway, pole, parked car into the path of others on the sidewalk or in the streets -- at any time.

     If you are riding a bike illegally or unsafely on the sidewalk or 'waive the right of way' to cars trying to turn across crosswalks and streets you may harm others that are behind you or around you.

Information Age Article On P.I. Law
      There are more faults and defects in machine parts (i.g. car brakes for example) than are known about or widely reported.

    That's why I never walk in front of any moving car, bike or robot that are close to me or trying to cut me off or drive into the crosswalks while people are present.  

   If the machine or its parts fail,  I'm the one that gets hit and harmed or killed, not them.  

     That's why when impatient drivers try to 'roll' continuously into crosswalks against the light,  I come to a complete stop.    When they come to a complete stop,  I continue my walking.

     When they start moving,  I stop until they stop moving because I love my life and refuse to let bad drivers endanger me or 'rush me' into running to get out of their way,  no matter where I walk.

    I don't waive or wave my right or way to let them pass because there could be a jogger or biker behind me who will get hit as they pass me if I let the cars cross my path while I am in the street.

   Human pedestrians have the ultimate right-of-way, at all times.  

   Cars, bikes and machines IN MOTION near humans and pets cause accidents and harm,  not humans walking or standing in place. 

      When our friends are at a meter, standing in place having a conversation or waiting for others,  bikers come up -- interrupt us --  and try to get us to move so they can park there illegally.  It's annoying and they need to stop doing that.

    It's OUR SPACE being OCCUPIED by people. 

    Until we walk away, it's NOT YOUR SPACE!

   After we walk away,  it's still an illegal place to lock up your bike.

From Streets.MN
   See This Streets.MN Article on The Fight For Pedestrian Safety, here:    https://streets.mn/2015/10/15/the-fight-for-pedestrian-safety/


     Vehicles that park near intersections, alleys or crosswalks illegally often Block the Line Of Sight for motorists, bikers and pedestrians. 

     When Bikes are illegally locked to Meters  blocks parking meter signage and parked car people's access to get in and out of their cars in many cases and takes up space that needs to be used by people standing on the sidewalk 'out of the way' of the pedestrian traffic and doorways.

     We spend megabucks on bike lanes and bike racks, so ALL BIKES trying to steal people space on our sidewalks by locking up to meters should be ticketed and confiscated.

      If you have a bike you have to risk it by parking it at legal spaces and bike racks or take them into the cafe or store just like the rest of us do -- who follow the rules and don't take the space of others for our own personal use or convenience.

     I'm not entitled to invade or take another person or group's space on the sidewalks and neither are you. 

    Just because you or I or anyone else think we're a pro biker or my commercial business or delivery or my 'rush' is more important than your safety, spaces and rights on our public sidewalks, doesn't make it so.


Washington Post Article
       At any time,  the machines can fail (historic note: The Elite pushing these robot and distraction devices calculate timing of part failures to maximize gains on warranties, future markets vis a nazi germany inspired 'planned obsolesence' and bank floor planning schemes that created wasteful, petro chemical, disposable products built to fail) and cause harm without a human being in sight to blame or lay fault upon or to take responsibility for said harm.

    I do not wish to be an 'early adopter' or 'late adopter' of any of the dreams and schemes being laid upon us that do not come up, from our own local communities because we do not own; control or derive greatest benefit from these things, unless we create them ourselves, putting humans and life above profits, cash, fame and control.

    I'm now part of a movement or group of individuals of "Never Adopters" who pledge to support local ideas and cash flows and movements of local communities we trust.

     We don't support monopolies or companies being paid with profits for those goods and services we can do for ourselves in lower or not for profit models to maximize local resources, for our locals' maximum benefit.

    We do not support the theft of our local space, cash flows or the implementation of automated machines or schemes that 'make us' do as others wish us to do,  being mostly not from here investors, elite, engineers and others trying to 'change the world' according to their manipulated visions,  not ours or those of our local communities.


Updated 6:58 pm, Tuesday, May 16, 2017
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/San-Francisco-could-ban-sidewalk-delivery-robots-11150856.php
Motorized Vehicles in Crosswalks Are Unsafe

   I don't want any motorized vehicle (robot delivery carts) on our sidewalks or in crosswalks jammed with people, pets, disabled, mentally ill, folks drinking or abusing drugs or on pharma products, baby carts and unsafe adult bike riders whom all already occupy our public space on our streets.

    What Do You Think ?   

 Post a comment or remain silent.  It's your choice.

  James
  Volunteer Moderator


 END OF UPDATE

4 comments:

  1. UPDATE: Venga Empadada Owner has been parking very neatly in the free space and no longer blocks access to the SFFD Water Pipes.

    HOWEVER, Now apparently The Family (reportedly Ken Patel) that owns the HOTEL SUNRISE at 447 Valencia Street park in that Fire Zone Spot, blocking Fire Department access to the water supply on the front of Ferguson's Plumbing, located 2 doors down. If there's a FIRE at HOTEL SUNRISE, it would be an ironic tragedy, if their illegal, unsafe parking habit caused delay resulting in preventable damage or loss of life to the resident of the hotel.

    We've told them about this hazardous way of parking and they ignored us, as if it was not important to them.

    They did not care. Pictures of their Scofflaw (recurring) Parking in the Red Zone will be posted soon.

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