Honey on the hands WEEKEND | 18 JUNE 26, 2015 VOLUME 23, NO. 22 www.MountainViewOnline.com 650.964.6300 MOVIES | 21 City’s homeless population doubles COUNTY NUMBERS GO DOWN, BUT STILL HIGH By Kevin Forestieri for demolition last year. The data seems to indicate that all those anta Clara County’s home- displaced people have headed less population is the lowest northward, Simitian said. Sit’s been in a decade, bring- “I (proposed) back in early ing in praise from city and coun- 2014 that we need a replacement ty officials who say the efforts to shelter because I think this was, reduce homelessness are finally altogether, predictable,” Simitian paying off. said. But in the North County, things The city now has 271 people are looking worse than ever. The with no access to an emergency county released a report this shelter or transitional housing week that gives a “snapshot” head who are stuck on the street, living count of the ever-shifting home- in cars or living in encampments less population in its jurisdiction. around the city. People who are The report found that between homeless in Mountain View are 2013 and 2015, the homeless frequently referred to the near- population in Mountain View est drop-in shelter, in San Jose, ballooned from 139 to a high of according to Tom Myers, execu- 276. tive director of Community Ser- MICHELLE LE County Supervisor Joe Simi- vices Agency (CSA) in Mountain tian said there’s a clear connec- View. ‘I HAVE TWO MONTHS TO MAKE A MIRACLE’ tion between the increase in The lack of homeless resources Public accolades and private turmoil have marked the past 18 months for community activist Elena Mountain View’s homeless pop- in the area could be fueling the Pacheco, who was honored in April for her 25 years of volunteer work at Lucile Packard Children’s ulation and the loss of the Sunny- high homeless count, according Hospital. The tireless volunteer and teacher found herself battling cancer and having to search for a new vale Armory, a cold-weather to Ky Le, Santa Clara County’s home after rent increases displaced her from the apartment she’s lived in for more than 20 years. Our homeless shelter for as many as story and photo essay documenting her struggle to reclaim her health and her life in Mountain View 136 people before it was closed begins on page 10. See HOMELESS, page 13 talking about the autonomous- The robo-car revolution hits vehicle program. They bring up the crash sta- Mountain View streets tistics to make a fair argument. If human mistakes are to blame By Mark Noack of my turns went a little wide; I for all those fatalities, then hesitated to remember my turn isn’t it worth trying to design a question kept ringing signals. system that will never lapse in through my mind as I Nevertheless, I passed and judgment? Wouldn’t the Atook my first ride Mon- became a newly minted Ameri- nation’s roads be safer if all cars day in one of Google’s prototype can motorist — one who still were scripted to abide flawlessly self-driving cars — Is this new- remains alive to drive another by the DMV handbook? fangled robo-car a better driver day despite my share of errors. That autonomous car revolu- than I am? Many aren’t so fortunate: Each tion still remains far off, but it is I thought about taking my year approximately 30,000 peo- inching closer by the day, and its driver’s test many years ago at ple are killed due to roadway crucible is the streets of Mountain the Los Gatos DMV, my hands crashes, the equivalent of a 737 View. The Google team, which has nervously gripping the steering airplane falling from of the sky already logged roughly 1 million MICHELLE LE wheel of my mom’s cumber- every four days. These grisly miles on local roads, announced Systems engineer Jaime Waydo talks about the design concept some Ford Aerostar while a numbers are fresh in my head it would begin ramping up its test- behind Google’s new fleet of self-driving cars. The Voice was given a heavyset bureaucrat checked off because they come up eventu- ing this week with a new line of 25 sneak peek at the cars, which will hit the streets of Mountain View this my mistakes. 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