Summary

  • A driverless Waymo taxi got trapped in the car park of a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Santa Monica, California, after dropping off a passenger.
  • It attempted to use the drive-through lane for a U-turn but ended up blocking the entrance; the restaurant had to briefly close while the vehicle was moved.
  • Drive-through lanes can be challenging for even experienced drivers, with narrow lanes, tight curves and the task-switching involved potentially leading to mistakes.
  • This week, an all-civilian crew took part in the world’s first crewed polar flight, beating the previous record set in 1963 by taking off due north and entering a retrograde orbit at 90˚ inclination.
  • In a new video, Bill Hammack explains the engineering behind plastic soda bottles, looking at the whole blow-moulding process as well as different types of bottles.
  • A new YouTube series uses clips from Star Trek: The Animated Series to illustrate more than 60 different logical fallacies in reasoning.

By Dan Maloney

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