Alex Davies is a technology writer, author of “Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car”, and a former editor at Wired, The Athletic, and Business Insider. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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Is that garbage can bear resistant? These bears will find out
In the name of safety, test engineers turn pill bottles over to kids, launch dead chickens through jet engines, and let bears loose on coolers.
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How ‘problem bears’ became test engineers’ allies
In “Kobuk the Destroyer,” a bear finds an unlikely job using the destructive flair that took him out of the wild to begin with.