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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?

Las Vegas NV: Dinner at Gordon Ramsay Steak PDF Print E-mail


Guest Senior Correspondent Jack L., Chicago IL: The restaurant is inside the elegant Paris resort on the Las Vegas Strip. There are two levels, with a large, sweeping staircase leading to the upper dining room. There’s also a bar, surrounding lounge and private dining rooms.

My appetizer was the bouche colcannon, an Irish traditional dish, with red wine braised cabbage croquettes. Next was beets, roasted with house-made ricotta cheese, lettuce, oyster mushrooms under a champagne vinaigrette, plus pumpernickel bread. The second course was asparagus soup with dungeness crab and some cheese custard. Alongside were pickled white asparagus and smoked caviar.

The third course was a house specialty, Beef Wellington. This was done perfectly, both the beef and the pastry, served with glazed root vegetables and a potato puree.

Dessert was coconut panna cotta and mango passion sorbet. This was served with berry consume, mint and fruit. After-dinner wines included Perrier-Jouet brut champagne, Spanish Rias Baixas, German Veltliner, Napa cab and a Piedmontese Moscato with dessert.

 
 
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