One-finger control: A self-driving Audi Q5, outfitted with radar, cameras and laser sensors, recently completed its 3,400-mile, 15-state journey, with a human driver in control only 1 percent of the time. The only problems occurred when the car, which stuck to the speed limit, angered other drivers who had to drive around it and subjected passengers to “a few hateful gestures.”
To correct the problem, engineers will install a robotic arm that can return the “gestures.”
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Did you check the spam folder: The state Auditor’s Office says it has found no emails between Auditor Troy Kelley and a former business associate and part-time employee related to an ongoing FBI investigation of Kelley’s closed escrow business.
Kelley, D-Accounting for Dummies, blamed the lack of relevant emails on his use of Hillary Clinton’s email server.
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A rock pioneer: Gary Ross Dahl, the creator of the huge Pet Rock fad in the 1970s, which sold stones in cardboard boxes for $4 each, has died at his Oregon home. He was 78.
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, two hunks of granite and numerous pebbles and gneisses.
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