Weekly output: Google’s live lane guidance, Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoils

LISBON–I traveled here to speak at my ninth Web Summit conference in Europe via another EU city that I’m quite fond of, Barcelona. The Mozilla Foundation had the good taste to host its Mozilla Festival there and then provide me with a travel stipend to cover the event, so of course I was willing to start my Web Summit trip a few days early. Even though that left me little time at home between working a 15-hour day Tuesday as an election officer and then heading to Dulles Airport Wednesday afternoon.

11/4/2025: Safe to Go? Google Maps Adds ‘Live Lane Guidance’ for Polestar 4 EVs, PCMag

PCMag had two stories under my byline this week, and this was the one I actually wrote this week to cover an update to the built-in Google navigation in one of Polestar’s battery-electric vehicles. The other involved my editor updating a post I wrote in May about President Trump withdrawing his nomination of private astronaut and payments billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, the new plot twist being that Trump had changed his mind again and had re-nominated Isaacman. I realize how confusing that last sentence can look. 

11/7/2025: This battery-electric hydrofoil could supercharge a ferry transformation, Fast Company

Two years after getting an introduction to the Swedish startup Candela’s battery-electric hydrofoil sport boats on the San Francisco Bay, I enjoyed an update of the experience on waters I know much better–the Potomac and the Anacostia. With a longer word count than I had for that PCMag report in the summer of 2023, I went into much more detail about Candela’s ambitions to get into the passenger-ferry business, its likely competition in that market, and potential obstacles to electrifying ferries.

#Anacostia #batteryElectricVehicle #Candela #cleanTransportation #drivingDirections #electricBoat #EVs #ferry #GoogleMaps #greenTransportation #navigation #Polestar #Potomac

> There might be military units patrolling Union Station and public spaces where tourists often come, she said, but “none of them over here. They are armed — on the Mall. Ain’t nobody doing nothing on the Mall. It’s for show.”

#dc #anacostia

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/07/in-1-dc-neighborhood-after-federal-intervention-a-mixed-view-of-more-authority-00549954

Matt Leasure DiscoTech 2012 Anacostia, DC

https://makertube.net/w/8hMVE6DT65GVP7GgJGE3ME

Attention-Worthy Links for December 2nd, 2024

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#Waste Oil #Supercapacitors #cyberattacks #spacecraft #Trump #leverage #threat #negotiating #Biden #squatting #refusal #oil #limits #production #Clutter #Kármán line #Thoreau #Hunter Biden #submarine cable #ITU #ICPC #LSU #sulfur#concrete #Passenger miles #2.3 light-years #Denmark #Løsning Søndermark #Broadband #connecting #school #library #telecom reform #Earth Information #Air and Space Museum #Anacostia #Calvert Cliffs

Double-crested cormorant on the Anacostia today.

On our way out, this is where we passed under the freight train

#BirdsOfMastodon #cormorant #anacostia

boat ride passed under a train today
-- so that's a first 😂

#anacostia