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
Are looking at Hurricane Harvey. How as a weekly did we plan for this coverage . We were going to wait to see what the storm was like because when we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not hit. By sunday it was clear that it was a huge disaster. Peter was back from vacation, he is an economist and he can take almost any story and look at the economic angle but also a human angle. He was perfect for this. There is another story. Chris has been doing work with fema and reporting on National Building codes and how a place like houston and texas in general are allergic to building codes. The combination of those two, the economy in houston and how things are put together, the cando attitude, but, lets do anything we want to do, and how this patchwork of Flood Control came together, and then there is this attitude about building codes. We dont like building codes. Carol ive got a lot of family in texas and i love them dearly, but they do things their own way. [laughter] oliver i
Are looking at Hurricane Harvey. How as a weekly did we plan for this coverage . We were going to wait to see what the storm was like because when we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not hit. By sunday it was clear that it was a huge disaster. Peter was back from vacation, he is an economist and he can take almost any story and look at the economic angle but also a human angle. He was perfect for this. There is another story. Chris has been doing work with fema and reporting on National Building codes and how a place like houston and texas in general are allergic to building codes. The combination of those two, the economy in houston and how things are put together, the cando attitude, but, lets do anything we want to do, and how this patchwork of Flood Control came together, and then there is this attitude about building codes. We dont like building codes. Carol ive got a lot of family in texas and i love them dearly, but they do things their own way. [laughter] oliver i
Ethics. He is in an awkward position because it his job to make sure that politicians behave and talk about their conflicts and is sort of let the public know what is going on. He is in an unusual edition because donald trump, unlike any president in modern times has basically kept quiet on many of the entanglements he has in the business world. That has put him in the unusual position of saying, mr. President elect, you should do this, and the president elect ignoring him. That has caused him to publicly say this is not a good thing and undermines the whole notion of the open skies, clean air we do in politics, and that has gotten him in an awful lot of trouble with republicans. He has been vetting quite a lot of nominees, and because of the wealth of a lot of the nominees, it is taking a lot of time, but they compress the time to do it to the point where people are having confirmation hearings before they have been completely vetted. It is an unusual situation and he has run into a w