Bolted to the top of a modified jumbo jet, the shuttle took off at daybreak on Tuesday, local time, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three hours later, the combo took a few final swoops around Washington at an easy-to-spot 1,500-foot(457-meter) altitude.
“It was pretty amazing,” said 12-year-old Riley Jacobsen of Bethesda, Maryland. “Pretty freaking crazy. It looked like it was inflated.”
- Space shuttle Discovery takes victory lap, NZHerald.co.nz, April 18, 2017.
2. Google made headlines earlier this week when Nevada issued the first drivers license for a self-driving car. The next day, the car was spotted taking a victory lap in Washington, D.C.
For years, Google has been working to perfect a driverless car that uses video cameras, radar sensors, Google Maps, and a laser range finder to navigate traffic. Apparently, the company has all-but-perfected its fleet of Toyota Prius hybrids—Monday, Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles approved Google’s “car of the future” to operate on state roads.
Experts have speculated that Google may have been taking lawmakers for a ride in the Prius, which was spotted Tuesday in Northwest and Northeast D.C., but officials for the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology said they had no knowledge of Google’s plans. Several E-mails to Google were unreturned.
“If I was to guess, they would be giving free rides to impress policymakers,” Anthony Park, a research scientist and writer for Driverless Car HQ, a site that follows the industry, wrote in an E-mail.
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