Good morning, Whitewater.
It’s already the middle of the week, and we have a mostly cloudy Wednesday ahead, with a high of seventy-three.
The Community Development Authority’s Seed Capital Screening Committee meets today at 3 PM, and its Board of Directors at 5 PM.
Google’s latest self-driving car has discarded the steering wheel:
Google has revealed it plans to build its own self-driving cars from the ground up, per an announcement from founder Sergey Brin at the Code conference Tuesday. The company revealed one such car to Recode, a highly compact two-seater without a steering wheel.
Google had previously been retrofitting Toyota Priuses and Lexus SUVs with its self-driving technology. The cars were approved last week for use on public roads in California, and Google demonstrated the technology’s ability to navigate complex traffic situations in cities at the end of April.
The prototype Google revealed differs from the Priuses and Lexuses in that they can’t let humans take over the job of piloting; they are completely controlled by the onboard computer. In addition to lacking a steering wheel, the Google-built car also has no accelerator, no brake, no mirrors, no glove compartment, and no soundsystem (your tiny smartphone speaker will have to do). The cars are capped at a modest 25mph and are started and stopped by a button.
Perhaps, in time, many cars will be without steering wheels.
Here’s Puzzability‘s Wednesday game in its Out of State series:
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This Week’s Game — May 26-30
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Out of State
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We’re taking a road trip for the unofficial start to summer. For each day this week, we started with the single word that completes a state’s nickname in the phrase “The ___ State.” Then we hid it in a sentence, with spaces added as necessary. The answer spans at least two words in the sentence and starts and ends in the middle of words. The day’s clue gives the sentence with an interstate sign in place of the nickname.
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We learned that younger members of the local Native American tri
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Answer:
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Beaver (tribe averaged)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the nickname (as “Beaver” in the example) for your answer.
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Wednesday, May 28
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