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Driverless Taxis Waymo Introduced On City Streets


It had to happen sooner or later! With all the hoopla about automatic cars on the roads, soon you’ll be able to hail, hop on and hop off a driverless taxi. It could happen in a city wherever your future travel schedule takes you. As with Uber and Lyft, you’ll call with your smartphone app and go for a ride.

And just maybe, the inventors of the new taxis will add familiar features from traditional taxis to ease your ride. Such as: When you tell the automatic driver your destination, you must speak in a foreign language of taxi driver’s origin, such as Brazilian, Swahili or Mogadishu. Also, from the back seat, you’ll smell the automatic driver’s unwashed odor of sweat, flatulence, garlic, wine, chili or week-old fishcakes.

When you enter the Waymo cab, it will automatically take you on the longest and most expensive round-about route. And if you ride on a busy traffic evening to a downtown restaurant or theater, the pumped-up tab will be double the daytime rate. Finally a question: How much do you tip a non-human driver?

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New York City: Mobile DNA Lab IDs Bio Dads PDF Print E-mail


Sober-up trucks in Las Vegas, hooker trucks in Rio, and now just when we thought we’ve seen all varieties of street vendors, there’s a new one. It cruises the mean streets of New York City, offering help for people who seek to confirm their paternity and for other services.

Called the Who’s Your Daddy truck, for about $350, you can have your DNA tested. The organization called Health Street now offers a mobile clinic for clients who want DNA, drug and background testing procedures on the spot.

The mobile truck is available around Manhattan by phone or email reservations, or simply by hailing it as you would a taxi. The truck also offers background checks and court-ordered drug screening. The DNA truck provides cheek swabs from each person involved in the testing, and results are available about two days later.

If you’re curious about your ancestry, and usually roam around Manhattan or will be a visitor, for more information, go to health-street.net

 
Grand Canyon AZ: Why Did The Elk Cross The Road? PDF Print E-mail


This photo taken near the South Rim begs the age-old question. However, the image does prove that the young elk calves won’t stop on the other side, and are complying with the no parking sign. Let’s hope human tourist drivers on the road will learn from the elk example.

 
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