Study: Electronics could stop 40% of big truck rear crashes: AP reports, safety features such as automatic emergency braking and forward collision warnings could prevent more than 40% of crashes in which semis rear-end other vehicles, a new study has found. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a research group supported by auto insurers, also found that when the rear crashes happened, the systems cut the speeds by over 50%, reducing damage and injuries.
Google’s genius $49/mo course is about to replace college degrees: “In our own hiring, we will now treat these new career certificates as the equivalent of a four-year degree for related roles.”
Alan Trapulionis
How to sell to college students when campus is closed: Brands like Aerie and VS Pink relied on in-person student events and campus ambassadors to drive sales. Can they replicate that success online?
BOF
In conversation with Duke Stump: As the former first CMO of Lime, he was tasked with unlocking the potential of a new wave of urban travelling, and internally “inspiring folks to see how vision and purpose is intrinsically linked to financial success”. In this interview, Duke spoke about the power of a great story and why honesty and vulnerability beats perfection every time.
Sonder & Tell
Where founders go all-in: How a secretive poker event became the must-do for the tech elite.
Shifted
How practical wisdom helps us cope with radical uncertainty: The stress of uncertain pain outsizes the stress of certain pain. These were the results of a 2016 study, published long before the uncertainty of Pandemic 2020 was running the world show. In the study, participants with a 50 percent chance of receiving a shock were more stressed than those with a one hundred percent chance of receiving a shock. In other words, it wasn’t just the possibility of a shock that caused stress—it was its uncertainty.
Yael Schonbrun + Barry Schwartz
Have big cities had their day?
Rory Sutherland
