Weekend Penstrokes: Flying Cars, Flying Ducks
An unconventional week-end (note I wrote week-end, not weekend; the action started already late in the week a la Thursday-Friday-ish). First robotic cars, and then flying ducks…
• Robotic Cars: The idea of robotic cars got me interested. This, obviously, in a city where the 3rd Ring Road turns into a parking lot twice a day. Robotic cars and robotaxis would kind of do their bit in solving Beijing’s traffic woes.
One point where robocars can come in handy is when a new freeway is built. They need to test-drive the road first before it’s opened to the masses. A robocar can come in handy here.
Something more interesting, though (at least for me) would be a monorail for Beijing. Fully automated, fast, and a good supplement to the Subway. OK — maybe a bit OT — but hey, we don’t want them jams no more!
• Flying Ducks: Meanwhile, I was treated to flying ducks — albeit dead ones ready for human consumption — on Friday, when Richard and Jeremiah decided to throw a party for Beijing bloggers. Quite a lot of folks there were expat bloggers — I was in as a Swiss blogger with a Chinese face.
What was most amazing there was the number of folks who were blogless. These guys did not have a blog at all. Naturally, I kind of stunned the masses with my name card, home to at least three to four blogs. (CN Reviews, naturally, got mentioned, as did The Beijingologist on City Weekend and techblog86.) Also a bit on the shocking side — I didn’t notice a lot of people tweeting about. Twitter was, oddly enough, a non-topic for the night.
Having said that, though, the atmosphere there was great. Collin from City Weekend joined the gang, so the party turned out more Beijingologist than CN Review-ist. However — and while I’m at this: Elliott, Min and fellow CN Reviews readers, care for a CN Reviews Dinner + KTV when y’all next in town?
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