I spent half an hour on Friday afternoon trying to look as inhuman as possible. That’s the trick to fooling the artificial intelligence camera in the Asian Art Museum’s “How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car” exhibit, which closes on Saturday. The goal was to make it across the room without the camera realizing I was human. When I managed it, with the help of a stop sign and extremely bent knees, I got my dubious reward from the display on the wall: “You win, but a self-driving car would...
After an incident with one of Google's driverless vehicles in San Francisco, Way.com explores whether the city is ready to adopt these vehicles for service.
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — The company seeking to start a luxury sleeping car train between downtown San Francisco and Los Angeles Union station says it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Union Pacific “formalizing the parties’ negotiations toward a comprehensive final agreement” to begin operations by 2025. A press release issued by Dreamstar Lines []Read More
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) - The Sacramento River Cats hosted the San Francisco Giants at Sutter Health Park on Sunday, and the Triple-A affiliate left the field with bragging rights. Sacramento won the game, 8-1. "We are so excited. We came here six years ago with my family so this is just great fun," said []
A cable car recently dedicated to the late Tony Bennett rolls past the landmark Fairmont hotel where the singer in 1961 first performed the song that would forever tie him to San Francisco.
Two people are dead and at least two others are injured following an
In part eight of our series exploring myths surrounding EVs, we examine whether they will break our infrastructureDo electric cars really produce fewer carbon emissions?Are EVs too costly to tempt drivers?Is it right to have range anxiety?Cars have a weight problem. Consider the Mini, designed to save precious fuel during rationing; it has ballooned in size. It is not alone. Cars have got bigger and bigger, with the rise of the SUV only accelerating the trend.Electric cars might look the same...
SCOTLAND COUNTY, N.C. (WBTW) -- A car crashed into a parked vehicle Tuesday afternoon during a chase on Highway 71 in Scotland County, according to Captain Randy Dover with the Scotland County Sheriff's Office. Dover said two people were in the car at the time of the crash and an officer pursued the car because []
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A motorcycle rider died after running a red light and
President Joe Biden knows that most people don’t want the sale of new gas-powered cars and trucks banned. That is why his administration tried ludicrously to spin the new tailpipe emissions rule as an expansion of “consumer choice.” “This technology-neutral and performance-based standard gives the auto industry the flexibility to choose the combination of pollution-control technologies best […]
In the U.S., there is a chasm between what the labor laws say and what workers experience as their everyday realities. That’s because employment here is based on private contractual law, or agreements between two parties—and the deeply misguided assumption that those two parties have equal bargaining power. We need to bridge that chasm. Doing so will require stronger unions; more aggressive legislation by Congress; more resources for, and enforcement by, local and federal agencies; and changes...