SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:56 P.M. ET:

HILARIOUS – FROM DEADLINE.COM:  ‘Roseanne’ Revival’s Huge Debut Stuns Hollywood, Prompts Soul-Searching.  That's the headline.  My reaction:  How can you search something that doesn't exist in Hollywood?

THE WEIRD NEW WORLD – FROM CBS LOCAL:    SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — A self-driving car was slapped with a ticket after police said it got too close to a pedestrian on a San Francisco street.
The self-driving car owned by San Francisco-based Cruise was pulled over for not yielding to a pedestrian in a crosswalk. Cruise says its data shows the person was far enough away from the vehicle and the car did nothing wrong.  A witness, Kevin O’Connor, snapped a photo after seeing the motorcycle officer pull over the self-driving car as O’Connor drove through the South of Market area last week. “There was another car stopped alongside and he looked a little befuddled,” said O’Connor. “The cop was just writing a regular ticket like they always do.”  How do you pull over a driverless car?  Do you send it a text message?  Do you deploy a robot?  Do you ask for license and registration?

QUALITY – FROM FOX:  If you’re looking for a car that will go 200,000 miles without much trouble, you basically have three choices:  Buy a Toyota.  Buy a Honda.  Buy an F-150.  That’s the gist of the latest survey conducted by the folks at Consumer Reports, who tallied the responses from its members and figured out which models made it that far the most often without needing much in the way of major repairs.  The Toyota Camry topped the list, which was ranked by the percentage of each model that didn’t require any work done in the past year, and doesn’t specify any particular model years, just the full spectrum of cars that hit the mileage mark. The Honda Accord came in second, followed by a variety of cars from the two brands and a lonely Ford F-150 in the tenth spot.  Sad that the great old names of American cars just don't cut it.  But hand it to Honda and Toyota.  Many of their cars are built in the USA, and to very high standards, and by American workers.  Shows it can be done.

March 28, 2018