Today on AirTalk, we host a statewide call-in special looking at the 25th anniversary of Proposition 187 and its impact on California politics. Also on the show, we discuss a new report on the limitations of Uber's self-driving cars; chat with home cooks about Riverside's ordinance allowing home-operated restaurants; and more.
NTSB Report Reveals Limitations of Uber’s Self-Driving Cars
The National Transportation Safety Board just released a 400 page report on the self-driving Uber fatality last March in Tempe, Arizona that killed 49 year old Elaine Herzberg, who was jaywalking with her bike.
The NTSB’s report says that the autonomous car didn’t recognize Herzman as a pedestrian up until a second before it struck her. Prior to that detection, the Uber’s software classified her as an unidentified object, and safely out of the car’s way. Uber said its software would have been able to identify her as a pedestrian had she been in a crosswalk, and have since updated their software. Herzberg’s family received a settlement two weeks after the crash, and Uber pulled all of it’s self-driving vehicles off the road.
Joining us to talk about what’s in the report, the state of the technology, and where legislation may go from here are Alan Levin, Bloomberg Transportation Reporter who’s been covering autonomous car safety, and Petros Ioannou, a professor of electrical engineering at USC.
Guests:
Alan Levin, transportation reporter at Bloomberg who’s been covering autonomous car safety
Petros Ioannou, professor of electrical engineering and the associate director for research at METRANS (Metropolitan Transportation Center) at USC
Can You Smell What Your Neighbor Is Cookin’? A Check-In On Implementation Of California’s New Home Kitchen Program
This year, California became the first state to pass a law allowing home cooks to run businesses right out of their kitchens and sell homemade meals to hungry customers, allowing a cottage industry that had once operated clandestinely to come out into the open.
A Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation (MHKO) operates much like a mini restaurant, according to Riverside County’s Department of Environmental Health, which oversees that county’s MHKO program. Riverside is currently the only county in the state that is currently issuing permits under the program, which went into effect on January 1, 2019. Other counties, including San Bernardino, San Francisco and Alameda are starting the process of implementing their own MHKO programs and are keeping an eye on Riverside County in the hopes of informing their own ordinances. But still, there are those who have concerns that the law gives counties too much regulatory control and worry how that might work with city or municipal zoning laws outside the county’s purview.
Today on AirTalk, we’ll check-in on how the implementation of this first-of-its-kind law is going, hear from a permitted home cook who also started an online platform to connect home cooks with customers, and talk about some of the challenges that still remain with implementation at both the county and city level.
If you are a Riverside County resident and are interested in starting your own MKHO, click here for more information on requirements and how to get started with the permitting process.
For a list of approved MKHOs in Riverside County, click here.
Guests:
Akshay Prabhu, founder of Foodnome, an online platform that helps in-home cooks manage their businesses, he’s also a permitted home cook in Riverside County
Ken Chandler, program chief for the retail food regulatory program at the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health, which oversees the county’s Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation
Kathy Shin, an attorney with the municipal law group at Best Best & Krieger, she’s been working with cities through the permit implementation process
Film Producer And Dealmaker Brian Grazer On The Art Of Human Engagement
Author and film producer, Brian Grazer, wants you to put down your phone and try to make more eye contact.
In his new book, Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection, Grazer offers these suggestions and more for developing impactful social skills outside the online realm. He makes a case for real-life connections by recalling his own personal breakthroughs with aloof celebrities, like Eminem and Bill Gates. Face to Face follows A Curious Mind, Grazer’s 2015 bestseller on the power of inquisitiveness. Grazer has produced films and television shows, including Arrested Development, A Beautiful Mind and Friday Night Lights.
Today on AirTalk, host Larry Mantle talks with Grazer, up close and personal, on the significance of physical engagement.
Guest:
Brian Grazer, Oscar-winning film and television producer whose credits include “A Beautiful Mind,” “Apollo 13,” and “Arrested Development”; author of the new book, “Face to Face: The Art Of Human Connections” (Simon & Schuster, 2019)
Statewide Call-In Special -- Proposition 187: 25 Years Later
The debate over illegal immigration in California reached a boiling point 25 years ago. The clash was crystallized in the battle over Proposition 187, a ballot measure that sought to bar the state’s undocumented population from accessing public benefits, among other things. Billions in taxpayer money, proponents argued, would be saved by 187. Opponents called it “anti-immigrant.”
On November 8, 1994, Californian voters approved the measure. But a court ruling blocked it from going into effect.
How did 187 change California politics? How significant was its impact? And how did it change the lives of Californians?
On Nov 6, from 11 a.m. to noon, KPCC’s Larry Mantle hosts an hour long, statewide call-in show with NPR affiliates Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, Valley Public Radio in the Central Valley, and KPBS in San Diego to explore these questions and more.
Join the conversation by calling us at 866-893-5722 or tweet using the hashtag #25After187
Guests:
Sen. María Elena Durazo, Democratic California State Senator representing Senate District 24, which includes the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Boyle Heights, Highland Park, and Los Feliz; she tweets at
Fernando Guerra, professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies and director of the Center for the Study Of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles
Gloria Molina, former CA State Assemblywoman serving the 56th District, which encompasses the Imperial Valley and parts of the Coachella Valley; former Los Angeles City Councilwoman; former member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors; first Chicana elected to the California State Assembly; she tweets at
Sean Walsh, Republican political analyst and partner at Wilson Walsh Consulting in San Francisco; former adviser to California Governors Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger and a former White House staffer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and H.W. Bush
Pete Wilson, 36th Governor of California (1991 - 1999)