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The Lengths We’ll Go

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 21, 2023March 21, 2023

“A family stays connected on the road.”

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The Making of a Monster

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 27, 2022October 20, 2022

“Centuries ago it was an idyllic earthen path. Today’s it’s the most dangerous road for cyclists in America.”

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Driving While Baked? Inside the High-Tech Quest to Find Out

by Peter Rubin February 15, 2022October 19, 2022

“Once stoned, the study participants find the 10-minute Cognivue test overwhelming, to say the least. ‘I kept questioning my sanity,’ one guy tells me. The clusters of vibrating dots confuse and frustrate almost everyone. ‘Are there dots? There are not dots,’ one person says. ‘All the dots, they turned into an amorphous borb,’ adds another. […]

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The Ditch

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 12, 2021October 19, 2022

“I might be a bilingual journalist, the holder of a Master’s degree from the Sorbonne, but navigating the world remained something he could do that I could not.”

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These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 18, 2017October 19, 2022

“We basically have people from two worlds, neither of which has ever talked to each other.” At Starsky Robotics, a driverless trucking startup in San Francisco, truck drivers and software engineers work side by side.

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Driving America

by michelleweber February 15, 2017October 19, 2022

“Liberated by technology and disillusioned of the road-trip myth, the latter-day road tripper must face directly the fact that traveling in itself is phenomenally boring.”

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