08:18 – I see that Apple has introduced a watch that costs up to $17,000 and runs for as little as 3 hours on a charge before it needs to be removed and connected to its charger for a 2.5 hour charging session. This battery issue seems to be a recurring problem with Apple products. I think the reason is that Apple “designs” new products and only after the design is finalized do they figure out how to cram a battery into it. They need to get engineers involved from the beginning, but I doubt Apple has many actual engineers.
There was an article in the paper yesterday and a follow-up article this morning about a 21-year-old woman who ran off the street and struck and killed a 10-year-old boy with her car. She then continued across the grass, ran into a tree and fence, abandoned her car, and fled. The article yesterday said that she’d been charged with felony hit-and-run. I said to Barbara yesterday that I thought that was a bit harsh, given that she’d left her vehicle at the scene. It sounded to me as though she’d panicked after the accident and wasn’t really trying to avoid responsibility for what she’d done.
The article this morning added more details. When he was struck, the boy was standing in front of his home, talking to his older brother and mother, who watched it happen. The driver lives on the same street as the victim, although the street changes names at the curve where the incident occurred. The street is only a few blocks long, so there’s no way she wouldn’t be identified. There’s a good chance that the victim’s family knew her or at least recognized her 2014 Toyota RAV4. Barbara speculates that she was texting when she lost control of her car and killed a child. So she’ll have that to live with for the rest of her life, and will probably be facing some serious jail time.