Good afternoon!

And how about those Warriors! Now, some news to bring you down to earth.

Start your reading with a fascinating story by Joe Eskenazi about run-ins between self-driving vehicles that claim the road and San Francisco’s bewildered cops and firefighters. It’d be funny if it weren’t, potentially, a matter of life and death.

Then get introduced to Michelle Hernandez, the baker and owner of 18th Streetโ€™s Le Dix-Sept Patisserie. Hernandez is thriving by adding French pastries to the Mission’s usual fair: It’s not just conchas and tacos, it’s canelรฉs and tarts.

Why are there more police at Dolores Park? How many of the 3,000 students who attended the National High School Journalism Convention last week were from San Francisco? And other mysteries that boggle the mind. If you didn’t get around to it yesterday–or you think you can improve your score โ€“ try our Sunday morning news quiz.

There’s nothing like a challenge, right? That’s why you live here. Meanwhile, watch out for those runaway driverless cars.

Sandy

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โ€˜No! You stay!โ€™ Cops, firefighters bewildered as driverless cars behave badly

The self-driving future has arrived in San Francisco. And, increasingly, it’s bad news for emergency responders.

People We Meet: Michelle Hernandez of Le Dix-Sept Patisserie

The Mission is a land of conchas, not canelรฉs; tacos, not tarts. But Michelle Hernandez’s patisseries are selling nicely.

Quiz of the Week: Why are there more police at Dolores Park?

Miss the Sunday news quiz? Or want to improve your score? Begin your week with our weekly quiz and see if belong to the San Francisco cognoscenti.

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By Angel Mayorga
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I provide editing support for Mission Local from New York, about 2500 miles away from SFO. (I just looked it up.) This allows me to retain my journalistic objectivity and fussy adherence to East Coast standards of punctuation. I got involved with Mission Local a few years ago through Lydia, whom I met in the early 1980s at The New York Times, where I was a business reporter. Since then I've been in and out of journalism and nonprofits, and have also tried my hand at fiction. A couple of years ago I contributed Mission Local's first fiction series, a comic novel called Love in the Middle Ages.