On the Road to Autonomy

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

Just because you're a venerable speaker company going back to the sixties and you have a pedigree that puts you in the pantheon of British audio companies, doesn't mean you're going to rest on your laurels. And KEF definitely is not resting on its laurels, as demonstrated by its Coda W all-in- one wireless powered speakers. These are kind of speakers I would have killed for in high school.

About 40 years ago Martin Logan started shipping its first audacious and stunning electrostatic speakers. Since then, the company has become a venerable brand offering not only cutting-edge towers but also wireless, in-wall, and bookshelf speakers, such as the Motion XT B100s. If you're like me, the first pair of speakers you owned were a pair of bookshelf speakers, primarily for their affordability but also because your parents wouldn't let you put a pair of 6-foot-tower spe