What We're Reading
We keep an eye out for the most intriguing stories about our subjects of interest: technological innovations, self-driving cars, the gig economy, artificial intelligence, consumer privacy concerns, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately:
Virginia Beach Is Using an IoT-Enabled Sensor Network to Predict Flooding in Real Time
Route Fifty
Self-driving buses in Maine? Bill before the Legislature could make it happen
Press Herald
Riders in Alphabet’s New Driverless Car Will Be Insured by a Startup
The Wall Street Journal
Sacramento State wants to shuttle students to campus in driverless robot buses
The Sacramento Bee
As the federal government falters, technology is leading a rise of the rest in statehouses
TechCrunch
How safe is ‘safe enough’ to put driverless cars on the nation’s roadways?
The Washington Post
Experts optimistic AI could save government billions of hours through automation
StateScoop
Google AI expert says regulation is 'big issue' for machine learning
Silicon Valley Business Journal
As drones grow more popular, N.J. lawmakers want to ban drunk flying and other behavior
The Record