Hyundai is…putting Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds” in an ad for its Assurance Connected Care in-car customer-service program…the late reggae icon’s music is…infrequently licensed for ads. The automaker is also sponsoring a remixed version (done by Bob’s son Stephen Marley and DJ/producer Jason Bentley) of Marley’s Legend album, which features the song, and a three-minute documentary about the remix project.
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…such contradictions must constantly be negotiated: public versus private, virtual versus real, active versus passive. On one hand, millennials consume so much media they can’t concentrate, torn as they are between texting, posting on Facebook, and watching YouTube. And yet they also have an astonishing ability to focus on elaborate videogame play for six-hour stretches or to watch complex, multistranded television dramas in binge sessions that can swallow a weekend. They are experts in driving games like Gran Turismo 5, but they’re not that interested in actual driving.
…There are…many countries that resemble ours in wealth and history; they have different gun laws, and they have much lower levels of gun violence. They have about the same incidence of crazy people, but after they have one psycho gun massacre they take action, and then very rarely have another. Meanwhile, the desperately dim efforts to equate some other potentially dangerous thing—cars or trucks or alcohol or airplanes—with guns gets more ridiculous each time they’re attempted. Many good things can have bad consequences in the wrong circumstances. What ought to be done—indeed, exactly what we often do—is to limit the dangerous consequences while allowing for the good ones. That’s why we do things like regulate who drives cars, put warning signs for pregnant women on wine, demand licenses on dogs, check people for box cutters before they board airplanes—all common-sense activities by which we attempt to regulate the risks of our pleasures.
The spread of this seemingly distant subculture, with Brazilian followers calling themselves “cholos” and cruising around in…low-and-slow automobiles, is raising eyebrows…in South America’s largest city. Some who cannot afford to buy vintage cars and customize them into lowriders simply roam São Paulo’s labyrinthine streets at the helm of bicycles accessorized with high-rise handlebars and banana seats.
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ahead of schedule by five years. also, FYI, Tesla
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L.A.’s most iconic river bridge, the Sixth Street Viaduct, is suffering from a degenerative “concrete cancer” that [puts] it at risk of collapse during an earthquake. It will be demolished to make way for a new span to be completed by 2019. The…proposal chosen by the city…reveals how the city’s self-image is itself transforming…The renderings include direct access to the river, park space, and pathways for cyclists and pedestrians. “We’re trying to change the hierarchy of automobiles first…”
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…we’re seeing fewer and fewer kids rushing to the DMV on their 16th birthday. More than 25% of all Gen Y’ers don’t have a driver’s license. Almost 30% of 19 year-olds aren’t licensed to drive, even if they could afford the gas. We’re witnessing the collision of a number of different factors that will have a seismic effect on the future of the auto industry.
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