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The Uber For Kids Has Arrived, Courtesy of Three L.A. Moms
A new ride-share service is taking care of a very modern, very urban, very L.A. problem: shuttling your children around the city in the middle of the busy workweek. Begun by three local mothers,...
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Jetsons Alert: Volkswagen Teams Up With Apple Watch
New Volkswagen vehicles will be synched with the VW Car-Net app, allowing drivers to access their vehicle through the new Apple Watch, the carmaker announced Tuesday. VW’s app will enable their...
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Mayor Garcetti Weighs in on That New York Times Style Section Story
Before launching into a really strong, heartfelt discussion about such important issues as governing with technology, race relations, traffic, homelessness, youth employment, and civic engagement at...
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Mayor Wants New Tech Advisor to Prepare L.A. for Driverless Cars
Forget subways and synching traffic lights: Mayor Garcetti is turning to Silicon Valley to help end congestion in L.A. The mayor’s office announced today they’re partnering with the Goldhirsh...
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California’s Self-Driving Cars Need Accident Forgiveness, Too
Since self-driving cars began appearing on California streets about six years ago, at least four accidents have been reported, according to a widely circulated Associated Press report. Google, which is...
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How Futurist Bob Gurr Shaped Disneyland’s Past
In his 27 years as a Disney Imagineer, Bob Gurr was known for doing the impossible: He designed a submarine fleet, the cars of Autopia, and the Monorail that soars above the park on a single beam. With...
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Something We Need: Potholes That Tweet
Potholes aren’t just the bane of Angelenos’ existences; they’re a menace in Panama City. Advertising agency P4 Ogilvy & Mather came up with a brilliant conceit, Jalopnik reports, where they placed...
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How Amy Duan Went From Social Media Star to Chinese Food Expert
Amy Duan’s first post went out on June 15, 2011. She had only recently learned about Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging platform that is based in China but used widely among Mandarin and Cantonese...
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This Month, Tesla Rolls Out Cars With Hands-Free Driving
Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, had no shortage of big reveals at the electric car company’s shareholders meeting on Tuesday, the L.A. Times reports. Most newsworthy is Musk’s claim that a gaggle...
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How L.A. Works: Body Cameras
In the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a plan last year to outfit 7,000 members of the LAPD with body cameras. Although such a step had been in the works for...
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The Lexus Hoverboard Is How Yuppies Of the Future Will Get to Work
Google is engineering self-driving cars, so why can’t Lexus build Marty McFly’s favorite way to get around? The luxury carmaker released a video on Tuesday showing a hoverboard floating above the...
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The Gas App That’s Been Downloaded 50 Million Times
Just as gas prices are surging upward, the cheap gas-finder GasBuddy just reached 50 million downloads. GasBuddy uses self-reported gas prices to help drivers find the cheapest stations in the area. As...
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Big Shots: Ted Sarandos
“I never felt like there was much to lose.” That’s how Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, chalked up his meteoric rise in the entertainment industry when the media executive sat down to...
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Drones Descend on 5900 Wilshire
You’ve seen them fly through fireworks, across perfect PCH beaches, and over East L.A., but today, drones are descending on this magazine’s home turf. This afternoon, July 28, a deluge of hover cams...
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This Video Perfectly Captures Post-Uber L.A. Life
For many Angelenos, especially those in their teens, 20s, and 30s, there’s life before and after Uber. Rideshare apps like Uber have enabled bar flies and night owls to untether from their cars and...
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The L.A. Woman Questionnaire: Becka Klauber Richter and Kasey Edwards
Kasey Edwards met Becka Klauber Richter 12 years ago, when the UCSB freshmen both moved into their dorms a day early. In the time since, they’ve gone on to become best friends, “work wives,” and...
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The Man Behind the LAPD’s New Body Cameras Sets His Sights on Income Inequality
After a lengthy trial run, the LAPD’s new body cameras are here to stay. On Monday, the first 250 of the initial 860 cameras were rolled out for officers in the Mission Division of the San Fernando...
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3 Mind-Blowing Things You’ll See at the L.A. County Fair
If you’re heading to the L.A. County Fair—or any county fair, really—there are certain things you probably expect to see. Fried twinkies, maybe. Or corn dogs. Perhaps a booth, inside of which you can...
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5 Shows You Can’t Miss at This Year’s L.A. Podcast Festival
Podcasts, aka every Angeleno’s highway travel buddy, have been around for over a decade, but they have exploded in popularity in the last two years (thanks in large part to Serial, which in the fall of...
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The Truth About Volkswagen Was Discovered 18 Months Ago in L.A.
It’s not a good time to be a Volkswagen owner or employee right now. Days after the German company admitted that 11 million of its diesel cars were equipped with software that allowed it to cheat...
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