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The Ground-Floor Window Into What’s Ailing Downtowns

City centers may have to be reimagined to solve the problem of vacant storefronts.

By Emily Badger

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Driverless Taxis Blocked Ambulance and Patient Later Died, San Francisco Fire Dept. Says

Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.

By Yiwen Lu

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David LaFlamme, Whose ‘White Bird’ Captured a 1960s Dream, Dies at 82

As a founder of the San Francisco band It’s a Beautiful Day, he was at the center, if not in the forefront, of the Haight-Ashbury acid-rock explosion.

By Alex Williams

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What Driverless Waymo Taxi Rides Are Like in San Francisco

On Monday, Waymo began letting the public pay for rides in its driverless cars in San Francisco. The New York Times dispatched three reporters around the city to test the service.

By Tripp Mickle Yiwen Lu and Mike Isaac