“He said, ‘Wouldn’t it be bad if everyone had to get out all at once?’ And then we said, ‘Wait, that’s actually a thing that happens.'”
— StreetLight Data CEO and co-founder Laura Schewel, on a discussion that prompted their study finding 23 small communities around the Bay Area, including Lompico, Pacifica and St. Helena, where residents could be trapped by traffic in a major evacuation, such as for wildfire.