When cruising at 15.53 miles per hour or slower, an electric car runs virtually silent. Once over that speed, road noise and air moving over the car begin to become prevalent and the car can be “heard” as it travels down the road. That silent running is an intriguing part of the electric car world, but it’s problematic, mostly because those speeds are generally reserved for traffic-clogged cities, parking lots and other areas where pedestrian foot traffic meets automotive.
(Photos) 10 HILARIOUS Office Pranks
The office prank is sometimes the only thing keeping us sane in the workplace, and just as businesses grow more creative and innovative, its workers’ pranks have become more elaborate. The Internet has allowed us to document these pranks like never before. Here are some of Huff Post’s favorite office practical jokes. 10. Who knew companies could hire 13 year old girls these days?
Authorities discover 30 tons of marijuana in border tunnel!
U.S. authorities have discovered about 30 tons of marijuana that were part of a smuggling operation using a tunnel under the California-Mexico border, officials said Wednesday.
MLB may consider expanding playoffs
Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl Baseball’s playoffs could be expanding in two years.  The new head of the players’ union says his members are open to adding more wild-card teams for 2012 and possibly extending the division series to a best-of-seven.
Old General Motors Auction Off Their Assets
(Detroit News) Assembly lines, robots, grinders and mills were on the auction block this week as Motors Liquidation Co. — the old General Motors — sold off idled equipment at its shuttered Livonia engine plant.
Google Creating a Car That Can DRIVE ITSELF IN TRAFFIC!?!?!
You’ll note that even the autonomous cars aren’t quite ready to be given the keys to… themselves… before being allowed to head out on the open road sans driver overlord behind the wheel. If anything, Google’s autonomous driving experiments can be thought of as a kind of cruise control—they aren’t quite at the I, Robot level of automation where one can simply tell a car a destination and be whisked into a high-speed, automatic-travel highway. @TatWza for TatsTechTalk.com
