This week on The Best
of Car Talk, Linda is suffering acute separation anxiety, after her dad sold the family's beloved Rambler to a neighborhood teen.
Indeed, there is an aspect
of car talk that reminds me of TV: specifically, folks have been claiming that the traditional cable bundle is dead for well over a decade in large part because they wish it were so, yet the bundle has kept trucking along.
Already, that's way more satisfying than turning on the radio to find out that you're in the middle
of a Car Talk episode.
Additionally, she is one - half
of Car Talk's F.I.D.O. blog (yes THAT Car Talk!)
I recently moved from Boston to the foothills in Colorado thinking I would be out of range
of Car Talk No such luck Wouldn't you know your radio show and column both run here Anyway I live in the mountains...
Tom and Ray Magliozzi - better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers - are hosts
of Car Talk, which airs at 10 a.m. Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays on WMFE - FM (90.7).
There was plenty
of car talk, coffee and Italian sports cars available.
Not exact matches
In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk
of driving a race
car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he
talked about his injury.
Therefore, you should make the most
of that, and instead
of talking about the great features
of the vehicle, make the client understand that he will save a lot
of money in the future if he chooses your
car.
You're
talking about two kinds
of improvement — Tesla updating your
car's software over the air at night as well as deep learning capabilities.
Either approach would open the door for a whole new class
of automotive apps, which could
talk to the
car's on - board systems on one hand, and the world at large on the other.
I juxtaposed the two views a few years ago in my TEDx
talk by comparing a pair
of cartoons: The Jetsons, which in the 1960s proposed a Utopian future
of flying
cars and robot maids, to WALL - E, the 2008 Oscar - nominated film that had humans reduced by technology to useless blobs unable to walk.
The digitization
of cars and the whole Internet
of Things story — phones
talking to thermostats and so on — is a positive for semiconductor makers.
For the generation that grew up watching David Hasselhoff's
talking car on Knight Rider, the idea
of the computerized
car is nothing new.
I
talked with Jim Lyski, the CMO
of CarMax, about how the used
car industry is becoming increasingly personalized and data - driven.
Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO,
talks about the company's acquisition on Mobileye and its leadership role in the competitive marketplace
of self - driving
cars.
And for all the
talk of recovery, it's still mostly those who can afford six - figure parking spots who are doing the recovering, not those looking for somewhere to park the
cars they now live in.
Rules for
cars were scheduled to play a prominent role over the past week, but the top U.S. negotiator on the issue was hurriedly summoned back to Washington on the first day
of the
talks to meet with representatives from American auto companies.
At the NAFTA
talks in Mexico City, negotiators agreed on two more topic areas and discussed details
of Canada's idea to redraw the way regional content for
cars is measured.
So we're
talking to globe - trotters in all
of our luxury fields — food, wine, fashion,
cars, real estate — to learn about their high - end tips and off - the - wall experiences.
Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake
of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to
talk about the business, at dinner, driving the
car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.
«Tom's been such a dominant, positive personality amongst us for so long that all
of us in the public radio family — and I include our millions
of listeners — will find this news very difficult to receive,» «
Car Talk» Executive Producer Doug Berman said in a statement to NPR.
In October
of 2016, Kalanick said he asked Page to call him to
talk about «flying
cars,» an area
of technology that Uber is interested in, and that Page has invested in through a start - up called Kitty Hawk.
This will enable drivers to
talk to devices in their home while equally offering the ability to start their
car or check vehicle stats from the comfort
of their favorite armchair.
In this edition
of The Digest Live, Scott Levine, owner and chief donut maker at Underwest,
talks about how the business ended up in a
car wash, how its second location at the busy Penn Station changed the company and shows how his delicious donuts are made.
The move
of driverless
cars and drones from sci - fi to reality has unleashed a torrent
of bestsellers, blog posts and TED
Talks, each pontificating on what it all means.
It seems crazy to even
talk about the idea
of someone moving to a smaller house or trading in their
car in order to bulk up their emergency fund or fund their 401 (k), even if doing so would probably make them happier in the long run.
And I'm really
talking about houses and
cars here, not your drink
of choice.
During BMW
of North America's debut
of its M2 coupe on Periscope last month, the sound dipped in and out as the driver
talked about how the
car handled.
Musk is expected to
talk a little bit more about how the company plans to finance several
of the projects he outlined in his master plan, which includes solar - powered roofs, self - driving trucks and minibuses and a shared network
of self - driving
cars.
Business Insider
talked with Levandowski about what it was like to be at the beginning
of the self - driving
car industry — and how it's going to change the future as we know it.
«Kevin noticed a bunch
of things in my
car and actually took the time to
talk to me.
She also declined to
talk about the possibility
of multiple carriers sitting on one antenna in the
car.
«According to nearly every OEM we
talk to, safety is the number 1 determinant
of car purchases.
«Mr. Levandowski had previously told me, in or around the summer
of 2015, that he had
talked with Brian McClendon, an Uber executive involved with their self - driving
car project,» a sworn testimony from Waymo engineer Pier - Yvez Droz reads.
«Mr. Levandowski had previously told me, in or around the summer
of 2015, that he had
talked with Brian McClendon, an Uber executive involved with their self - driving
car project,» Pierre Yvez - Droz, an engineer at Waymo, wrote in a sworn testimony.
In this session, Author Kim Zetter will
talk about Stuxnet and the security issues around the digital systems that control our critical infrastructure — trains, planes, water treatment plants and the power grid — as well as the products
of our daily lives, including
cars and medical equipment.
Again, you could choose to give Young the benefit
of the doubt that he was only
talking about
cars, not trucks, and then you are likely pretty close to the right number for oil sands emissions.
The electric -
car maker's stock TSLA, -5.55 % has slumped 16 % since its closing peak this year at $ 357.42 on Feb. 26 through Tuesday, compared to the S&P 500's SPX, -0.23 % 4.5 % loss, and
talk is getting ugly ahead
of Wednesday's first - quarter earnings report.
We know that they're out there just selling us a bill
of goods, a piece
of junk, that isn't worth half the price that they're charging for it and so we hate the used
car salesman pitch because all they do is
talk,
talk,
talk,
talk, because they don't want you to ask any questions.
Apple also has denied reports that it
talked to a private test track facility east
of San Francisco, chatted up cutting - edge Austrian automotive supplier Magna Steyr, or powwowed with electric -
car charging station companies.
Waymo came out swinging Wednesday, with attorney Charles Verhoeven accusing Uber
of an elaborate cover - up scheme to hide the fact that Brian McClendon, Uber's vice president
of mapping, had been in
talks with Levandowski before he abruptly quit Google's self - driving
car unit in January 2016.
Of course,
talk with Lonsdale about hard problems invariably leads to questions about Lonsdale's mentor - turned - cofounder, Peter Thiel, who famously complained years ago: «We wanted flying
cars.
Nick Sampson, the head
of research and development at Faraday Future — Tesla's purported rival —
talked about exploring a «subscription model» when the company unveiled their concept
car at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2015.
There's been a lot
of talk about Tesla's new radar - centric Autopilot capabilities, capable
of seeing three
cars ahead, but lost in the spotlight are also...
The mobile
car - hailing application is in early
talks to raise a new round
of financing that could value the start - up at $ 50 billion, according to a person familiar with the discussions, who spoke anonymously because the process is confidential.
I wouldn't have thought
of offsetting the carbon impact when I go speak by asking the people I'll be
talking to if they would commit to not driving their
cars for a week until my friend Will started doing that.
In a particularly poignant passage, Wallis writes, «When children
talk about their favorite kinds
of caskets instead
of bikes or
cars, it is a sign we can no longer ignore.»
But, in my experience, sometimes the best way to keep communication healthy and open is to go to bed angry and then
talk about it the next morning when you've had enough sleep to know that leaving the milk out in the
car probably wasn't a veiled act
of aggression meant to symbolize every problem in the relationship, but rather just the sort
of mistake anyone would make while distracted by a fascinating story on NPR.
``... very strong politically correct and left - wing revisionist history attitude or tone that's also Anti-American (especially a vague charge against «U.S. foreign policy»), and strong anti-capitalist elements... blasphemy, implied urinating, vomiting, scatological humor, and comments on breast feeding and sexual parts
of people's bodies; light brief violence includes beating on
car window and trying to damage
car, man comically shoves people off a stage, man burns books; sexual content includes homosexual references, implied adultery with a pregnancy out
of wedlock,
talk about a priest raping boy in the past, a giant condom balloon placed on church steeple, references to real condoms, implied fornication; upper male nudity, man wears a dress; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and marijuana use depicted, including eating marijuana brownies; and, strong miscellaneous immorality includes lying, stealing, revenge, rebellion, dysfunctional family portrayed, father is a pothead and a drinker and lives in a trailer»