Urban planners, the refuse industry, and cities across the country are reimagining how we manage and dispose of our waste, leveraging artificial intelligence, robotics, and electric power to tackle a growing garbage crisis fueled by cheap products and throwaway culture.
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The $3.5 million Lamborghini Fenomeno “looks like an alien,” according to Mitja Borkert, the brand’s design director. And some of its features are “not making you a better driver and not helping you drive faster,” he says. They’re “just looking cool.”
When asked what drew them to the car, Anderson says, “It’s just a beautiful piece of furniture.”
Rolls-Royce has been producing Phantoms for 100 years, making its pinnacle model the longest-running nameplate in automotive history. Discover what makes each era of Phantom so opulent and oppressive.
In their quest to be omnipresent in their customers’ minds and lives, and/or to trade their august respect for flashy young social media hits, automakers have collaborated with all manner of other brands–human or otherwise. The effects are often thrillingly imprudent or inscrutible.
Credit the fin de siecle Parisian avant garde, French aeronautical pioneering, Andre Citroen’s gambling problem, national geography and demography, and the petri dish of a relatively closed vehicular economy. But be happy it all exists.
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Bentley just unveiled an all-electric concept, the EXP 15, and its outré appearance falls along the subjective spectrum between “bold” and “the designers have contracted brain worms.”
“Do I love SUVs? Not really. As a designer, an SUV is a marketing accommodation.”
When filming, Idris was able to tap the knowledge of one the best known, and the best, racers of all time, Lewis Hamilton, who is a producer on the movie, and appears in it. “Lewis would come by set loads of times, and we’d sit in the trailers and he’d call BS on what was in the scripts, like, ‘That would never happen,’” Idris says, grinning.
I’ve returned to fiction writing recently, and just published my first short story in more than a decade. Check it out on p. 142 of this digital version of Chicago’s “Levitate” magazine.