Bloomberg businessweek, jim ellis. I want to start at the business, because there is a fascinating story. We have been so focused on the auto sector. We had the auto show underway in detroit. When we think of self driving, we think of the auto manufacturers, but you also have to think about the paint manufacturers. That is what you guys write about this week . Jim this is a really interesting story, because we think this technology is all about sensors and hightech things and now some of the most oldschool companies around, paint manufacturers, are sort of key to the new technology. It turns out that for all the sensors we are equipping newfangled cars with, Autonomous Vehicles need to be able to bounce off another oncoming vehicle or vehicles around and then they judge the distance between them, they do crucial to make this work. The problem is it turns out theres a blind spot these sensors have, and that is people cant read very well cars that are black or dark colored. Carol and the
Because there is a fascinating story. We have been so focused on the auto sector. We had the auto show underway in detroit. When we think of self driving, we think of the auto manufacturers, but you also have to think about the paint manufacturers. That is what you guys write about this week . Jim this is a really interesting story, because we think this technology is all about sensors and hightech things and now some of the most oldschool companies around, paint manufacturers, are sort of key to the new technology. But it turns out that for all the sensors we are equipping newfangled cars with, Autonomous Vehicles need to be able to bounce off another oncoming vehicle or vehicles around and then they judge the distance between them, they do crucial to make this work. The problem is it turns out theres a blind spot these sensors have, and that is people cant read very well cars that are black or dark colored. Carol and there are a lot out there. Jim thats it. The bouncing needed to det
Baby and we were just having a really difficult time coming up with names, finally my husband suggested Eleanor Francis, i googled the name and what popped up was a woman named Eleanor Francis and there was a beautiful picture of her black and white taken at nasa in the 1960s accepting an award. I was stun by the picture because i had no idea that women worked in nasa at that time much less a scientist. So i really wanted to learn more about i found out that actually Eleanor Francis was not alone and they were known as computers so at the time before the digital devices a computer simply meant a person who computes. Host how did that group woman together when women in technology, engineering that was being done at jpl was a rarity. Guest it ended up being an allwomen group simply because of macy roberts. In 1942 she was made supervisor of the computers and while she had men that applied for the job, she decided that she we wanted to make it all women and her thinking is that she wanted
To a judge, judge neil and he said i like you to sign a book for a friend of mine and i said oh great, who is the friend . And he started spilling the name, ba are a, it was president obama. And i signed a book for him and i like to tell you what i signed. I said to president obama, we are all proud of your presidency and i know that Thurgood Marshall would be proud to, sincerely yours will haygood. So thank you. Yg that will bring our three hours to a close. Will haygood, haygood, in the context of Miami University thank you for your time a book to me. Thank you very much, its, its been an honor to be here. Every weekend, but tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and author on cspan too. Heres whats coming up on saturday at 915 eastern. Fox news channel, the five cohost eric boling looks at the values and virtues that help build america as a virtues that help build america as a great nation in his book, wake up america. The ninth virtues that made our nation great in my we need the more
New information about a 13 yearold girl officers say crashed a van into a Pinellas Park subdivision. That girl is accused of stealing the car from holiday and driving it more than 25 miles to pinellas county. The crash left one home a mess. The impact sent hundreds of bricks from that neighborhood sign into this house and their yard. It is just bang. Then another huge bang. Then you could hear glass shattering everywhere. Officers arrested the girl. She is charged with grand theft auto and leaving the scene of the accident. We are Digging Deeper into how police finally caught up with her. Well have that story for you at 6 00. New information tonight about the president s trip to cuba. The dates have been set. That will be march 21st and 22nd. That trip has been expected since president obama normalized relations with cuba he plans to meet with president raul castro. It will be the first time in 88 years an american president has visited cuba. Marco rubio and ted cruz two republican cub