On the Road to Autonomy

After being on the road, it's a relief to settle down and listen to tunes uninterrupted. Recently, I spent a few weeks playing everything from Angine de Poitrine to Amiee Mann on the Klipsch Sevens II. Here's my review for The Absolute Sound:

Best Smartphone: OnePlus 15R When you're traveling, the last thing you want is a smart phone that runs out of battery power. Without power, there's no navigating foreign cobblestone streets or using Google Translate to converse with the wait staff in a 400-year-old Estonian pub. That's why the OnePlus 15R is such a wonderful travel companion, with a battery that will last a full 24 hours without having to plug in. The OnePlus 15R is a top-tier phone priced at just $700 list (

For autonomous vehicles and car companies, 2016 was a heady year. Multimillion-dollar investments in self-driving technologies were heralded on a weekly basis, and then Ford made an audacious prediction: It would mass-produce self-driving cars for consumers by 2021. That era “was insane with announcements,” said Alan Hall, a Ford communications manager at the time, “and 2021 was the magic number.” Five years after that missed goal, fully autonomous vehicles festooned with sen