A House of Lords report on self driving vehicles (“Connected and autonomous vehicles: the future”) led the BBC Radio 5 morning news bulletin today (Mar 15, 2017). The advance of this CAV technology over the past five or six years has been phenomenal, and it’s hard to see what could prevent it from dominating the… Continue reading
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La Rochelle – green city of the sea, and Inspector’s Maigret’s Simenon
La Rochelle strives to be different. Facing the world on the Atlantic coast, it has always stood apart from the rest of France, one of the great seafaring cities. With typically French poetic verve, one of La Rochelle’s unofficial names is “Daughter of the Sea.” The English crown ruled it, between 1154 and 1224. It… Continue reading →