The North Carolina Museum of History is hosting its largest exhibit ever, The Story of North Carolina. As the title suggests, this exhibit is all about North Carolina: how it started, who started it, what changes it has gone through, and what its distinguishing features are. The result is a massive series of artifacts, multimedia […]
Archive | July, 2014
“Mercedes-Benz Food Stamp” Writer Shows Complexity of Poverty
We are writing because two weeks ago an article appeared in The Washington Post about a woman’s struggle with becoming suddenly impoverished. This article was quickly shared throughout the Internet because there was something about the woman’s story that seemed unusual to people. We first noticed it when we saw dozens of retweets with the […]
2015 C-Class Gets Plug-In Hybrid Electric Version This Fall
The age-old balance between gasoline and electric cars is inching toward resolution. A new plug-in hybrid electric version of the C-Class is due to arrive in the U.S. this fall. Initial estimates say that the PHEV will have a 109 MPG equivalency. We say equivalency because PHEVs run on a mixture of gasoline and electricity, […]
MB Embraces Electric Vehicles, Millenials and Self-Driving Cars
Autonomous cars and Mercedes-Benz are a lot more closely related than you think. Features like Park Assist, Intelligent Drive, Blind Spot Assist and Lane Keeping Assist feel like incremental novelties when evaluated one-by-one. But consider them together and you actually have a vehicle that’s almost driving on its own entirely. The result is something that […]