Matthew Dolan of the Wall Street Journal writes about Ford’s new self-parking system:
DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. plans to offer two Lincoln models next year that can park themselves, the latest move in a strategy aimed at improving the public’s image of the auto maker.
The automatic parallel-parking system will be shown next month at the [...]
Matthew Yi at SFGate.com reports:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger began signing bills into law on Wednesday, starting with legislation that bans text messaging while driving…
…The first bill, SB28 by Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, will make California one of a handful of states that bans text messaging while driving. Others include Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, Connecticut and [...]
My wife and I gave a bag of nice coffee to my wife’s parents. We did not realize the bag contained whole coffee beans, but fortunately my father-in-law had an old-fashioned coffee grinder that did the trick.
If you’re into animated holiday greetings, Norfolk Southern has a railroad theme one available.
In the good old days, a real police officer pulled people over and gave out tickets. Now, localities are increasingly sending tickets in the mail after automatic cameras photograph an offending vehicle’s license plate.
Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica wrote an interesting story about people covering their license plates with fake tags so that the tickets [...]
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