Self driving car good or bad

I don’t begrudge the company for attempting to argue otherwise. The push for not-car-ness is evident in Cruise’s intense marketing campaign leading up to the unveiling of the Origin. The company recently emptied out its Instagram account — so long, photos of smiling people riding in the company’s fleet of self-driving Chevy Bolts — and posted a series of cryptic longitude and latitude coordinates that correspond with famous historical moments, like the invention of the compass and the steam locomotive. Not-car inventions that seriously changed how we travel, in other words. … [Read more...] about Exclusive look at Cruise’s first driverless car without a steering wheel or pedals

Then things got really weird; in July 2013 Bieber urinated in a bucket before swearing at a picture of Bill Clinton (he later called to apologise); brought a pet monkey, apparently illegally, and then left it “frightened and alone” in Germany; supposedly visited a Brazilian brothel; egged his neighbour’s house after a dispute which then led to the police raiding Bieber’s house and finding drugs; and finally, getting arrested in January 2014 for allegedly drunk driving and drag racing. In the end a petition carrying 262,817 signatures made its way to the White House asking for the Canadian fringe experimentalist to be deported. … [Read more...] about Justin Bieber’s resurrection: how the pop star made a spectacular return

Saturday Night Live bugs me because it's the least live show on TV--you improv, you're fired. WHY WHY WHY don't Oscar producers understand that time needs to stop when a winner gets up there. Yes, Ally Sheedy went on for ten minutes once at the indie spirit awards but even that was a historic event in its way. Sunday February 26, 2012 9:16  … [Read more...] about David Edelstein Live-Blogs the 2012 Oscars