Cars

Loaning your car to strangers on Getaround just got a whole lot easier with Getaway, a new service launched Thursday. Never again let your car sit in the garage during a long vacation, or have to leave it collecting dirt in your parent’s driveway when you go to college. Getaway will loan it out for Continue Reading →

I have to admit I was somewhat suspicious about attending an event for Majesco Entertainment’s “NBA Baller Beats.” While Majesco has been a game publisher since 1986, they didn’t know how to market Tim Schafer’s brilliant adventure game, “Psychonauts.” And they didn’t sink enough money into “Advent Rising” or “BloodRayne” for the developers to finish Continue Reading →

The number of citizens wondering into ditches, on-coming cars, and each other while staring at electronics has “quadrupled”, according to the Associated Press. “Look up. Drivers aren’t always looking out for you,” reads a Delaware traffic safety sign, one of many states that are turning to the magic of PSA billboards as a substitute for Continue Reading →

A few weeks ago, while cruising the highways of Southern California in the Ford Mustang GT500 I rented from Hertz, I was forced to skip two unmanned tollbooths.  As crimes and misdemeanors go, this loathsome act probably would not have landed me on the “most wanted tollbooth skipper” list.  But I hated the fact that Continue Reading →

Compared to previous generations, Millennials seem to have some very different habits that have taken both established companies and small businesses by surprise. One of these is that Generation Y doesn’t seem to enjoy purchasing things. The Atlantic’s article “Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars?” mused recently about Millennials’ tendency to not care about owning Continue Reading →

Is a roving, body-scanning van a needed surveillance tool or a another step toward eroding personal privacy? Andy Greenberg of Forbes is reporting that American Science & Engineering, which provides x-ray scanners to governments and defense companies, has introduced a van capable of scanning nearby cars. The Z Backscatter Vans, or ZBVs, are used to Continue Reading →

(Content originally published on KellerFay.) Everyone is talking about the massive amount of money that will be spent on advertising during this presidential election.  But a recent article in the New York Times illustrates that advertising alone will not win the campaign, and that organized, person-to-person persuasion remains critically important. Entitled, “Obama Campaign Banks On High-Tech Ground Game to Continue Reading →

Inside Google’s secretive X laboratory, known for inventing self-driving cars and augmented reality glasses, a small group of researchers began working several years ago on a simulation of the human brain. There Google scientists created one of the largest neural networks for machine learning by connecting 16,000 computer processors, which they turned loose on the Continue Reading →

Route 241 is part of a toll road system in California that is eponymously named, "The Toll Roads." Continue Reading →

Verizon agreed to buy Hughes Telematics Inc., a provider of wireless-enabled services to cars, for $612 million in cash as the telecom heavyweight aims to broaden the way people use its network. Read the full story at The Wall Street Journal Continue Reading →