Trump is my President

While experts debated whether self-driving cars would be commercially available in 5 or 10 years,  Uber  raced ahead and put vehicles on the road. Last August, it launched a program in Pittsburgh that allowed people to summon a self-driving car from their phones. At the same time, Uber acquired autonomous-trucking startup Otto. Together, these moves put the company, valued at $68 billion, at the forefront of transportation’s next wave. “The biggest asset and advantage [of our self-driving efforts] is being part of the larger Uber network,” says Raffi Krikorian, engineering director at the company’s Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh. 1. A SMART PILOT Uber deliberately chose Pittsburgh for its first fleet because of the city’s erratic weather and winding roads. “If we can drive in Pittsburgh, we [know we] have the features we need to go and drive in other cities,” Krikorian says. The project has since expanded to Phoenix. 2. AUTOMOTIVE ALLIES Last s...

Pop icon Cher took to Twitter Thursday to blast the House’s passage of the American Health Care Act, lamenting that the bill’s signature into law would threaten to cut funding to treat her asthma. In her signature tweeting style of using emojis for words, the 70-year-old singer called the passage of the AHCA on Thursday “insanity,” and called President Donald Trump a “mad King George III president.” In an earlier tweet, the singer called GOP representatives in the House “inhumane” and predicted millions of people would die as a result of the legislation, which has not yet cleared the Senate or been signed by the president. Cher also urged New Yorkers to “show this idiot what he’s in for.” The president visited his hometown Thursday evening for the first time since he took office in January following the vote on the health care bill. The pop star was just one of numerous celebrities to use their social media accounts Thursday to voice their dis...

We trial UberX and taxi services to find out which performs best on price and r e liability Uber has well and truly entered the market in Australia. However, the app-based transport service's journey hasn't been without controversy and opposition from the taxi industry. Initially, much of the kerfuffle circled around the legality of UberX, a ride-sharing service that links passengers with private drivers through an app. But as regulation has been, or is planned to be, introduced in most states and territories, the legality of ride-share services is more or less resolved. UberX first made a splash in Australia back in April 2014. Since then, a number of other ride-sharing services, such as GoCar and even the female-only service Shebah, have launched. In that time the ride-sharing industry has seen a steady increase in passenger demand, while it appears taxi use has remained consistent, according to figures from an Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal. For example, ...

After settling two big lawsuits where drivers claimed Uber did not allow them to accept tips, Uber agreed to not get in the way of the practice any more. There was even speculation that Uber might start encouraging the act. Today, the on-demand ride app has answered that speculation with an unequivocal middle finger to its drivers: “Tips are not included nor are they expected on Uber.” In the  two class-action lawsuits , drivers accused the company of violating labor laws by discouraging tipping. As part of the settlement, Uber agreed to allow its drivers to ask for and receive tips, a seemingly big stride for a company that has a terrible track record for  poor labor practices . But in an email that went out to some customers today, which is also  posted on Uber’s public policy blog on Medium , the company asserts that tipping has never been part of its policy: Nothing has changed. As we’ve said for many years, being Uber means you don’t need to tip. Of...

Uber Technologies , the increasingly popular yet controversial ridesharing app, has so far infiltrated  58 countries  around the world in its five-year lifespan and shows no signs of slowing down. The number of new drivers joining the ranks of Uber chauffeurs  doubles  every six months, and last week the company officially surpassed the  $50 billion mark  in funding. But for all its popularity, the upstart has had (and will probably continue to have) a bumpy ride,  enraging  established taxi companies by elbowing its way onto their turf and demonstrating the  potential problems  with the still nascent sharing economy. While commuters and government decide how to deal with Uber, here are a few things you might not know about the company and the drivers that make it go. 1. Drivers don’t get discounts. When Barrett, an UberX driver in Tennessee, answered his phone to speak with me, he was walking a mile to the airport to avo...

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel will need quite some time to brush the most recent blow he received from “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak, who savaged the comedian’s moralizing crusade against everything conservative on Twitter. As we all know, Kimmel recently made headlines when he used the opening 10 minutes of his Monday’s episode to rant against President Donald Trump and the GOP when it came to gun control, saying that they were the ones to blame for the horrific shooting incident which took place in Vegas this Sunday and took the lives of more than 50 people, leaving several hundred wounded. And it seems that after CNN went on to call Kimmel the “conscience” of America, despite him being just a goofy comedian which found himself hosting a late night show and making untasteful jokes against President Trump with the goal of getting more views and higher ratings, Pat Sajak also took it to Twitter to capture this self-important irony perfectly, writing:  Follow...

Bill O’Reilly was working for Fox News for 21 years and he was one of the best political commentators. He got fired after a few sexual harassment allegations. However, there is one new revelation regarding these allegations. According  to Newsmax, Perquita Burgess was arrested for making false accusations, claiming that Bill harassed her with sexually-charged language. Christian News Alert  reports  that Burgess is the main reason for the firing of Bill from Fox News. Even though  New York Times  began the charges against the host, Burgess’s statements gave the push to Fox News to fire Bill. Over the years, the stories given by the Times forced Bill to settle the cases in court for large sums. He stated that he settled in just to save his family from any emotional suffering. In the middle of this controversy, Burgess accused Bill.You could hear a pin drop at the UN. Wow.bi She worked for some time at Fox News in 2008, and she states that during tha...

The Pledge of Allegiance has been a nationally recognized symbol of loyalty to the country for American citizens since 1942. While the text has undergone many iterations, it continues to represent American patriotism and pride. Many have questioned the requirement of school-aged children to “pledge their allegiance” to a national symbol of the flag; citing that the wording used in the text of “under God” is in direct opposition to the First Amendment, which establishes the separation of church and state. Others feel that the requirement for children to recite the Pledge in schools encourages unity, respect, and patriotism for the men and women who died fighting for our freedoms. Do you think students should be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance? To recite the Pledge of Allegiance maintains American values as established by the founding fathers. Freedom of expression works both ways and parents and students who want to express pride for our nation should not have that righ...

There has been a lot going on in this nation since a few weeks ago. Democrats have waged a full-blown war on President Donald Trump and his response to the Charlottesville events. It has been getting far worse than better and it at the point, Trump has just about had enough. Everything that he does is attacked by the liberals for being un-American. That is a joke. Now it is getting even worse. Democrats and members of the Congressional Black Caucus have now demanded that reparations be paid to black people as a result of slavery. Yes, you read that right. After almost 100 years of saying nothing, there are now demands that we pay citizens of our own country. This is a slippery slope. It has been Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who has made the demand. He has been doing this for the better part of the past 2 decades. That goes back a long time, folks. Only this time it is actually being looked at as a real bill. The bill says that there is social and economic discrimination ag...

Tell your friends about This – SHARE NOW With much of the country wringing its hands over Donald Trump, allow me to be the bearer of some good news:  Several good things are happening to the American system of government as a result of his presidency.  Admittedly, I am turning to the somewhat perverse law of unintended consequences to find these, but systems are retooling to protect themselves from President Trump and the result could be very healthy, both now and in the long run. First, Congress is reawakening to its leadership role in policy-making and legislating.  The founders understood Congress to be the “first” of the three branches, worrying whether there would be sufficient “energy” in the executive while acknowledging that the judiciary, as Alexander Hamilton put it, would be “the least dangerous branch.”  All of that has been turned on its head, with the modern presidency since Franklin Roosevelt vying with the courts for f...