Andrew J. Hawkins

The 2023 Cadillac Lyriq is the latest fancy car to eliminate physical buttons in favor of more touchscreen nonsense (as noted in Doug DeMuro’s most recent review of the electric SUV). I can conceive of no earthly reason why I should have to dig through several menus on a touchscreen just to open the glovebox except that physical buttons cost money I guess? So please, Cadillac, put the button back in and then send me the bill.

According to New York’s Rebecca Traister, the Pennsylvania Senate candidate is still struggling to process what he hears since suffering from a stroke last May. He’s been relying a lot on text messages, but also Google Meet, which features real-time closed captioning. Traister’s interview with Fetterman in early October was conducted over the video communication service.

Levandowski — driverless car pioneer, church founder, trade secrets thief, Trump pardonee — features prominently in this Business Week cover story about how autonomous vehicles are failing to live up to their early hype. There’s a lot of color about driverless cars getting stuck in San Francisco, but the piece is anchored on Levandowski’s heel turn. Of course you should take his disparagement with a grain of salt: he’s currently working on a project that involves outfitting construction equipment with self-driving sensors.