The first self-driving car has been pulled over for drunk driving. "Honest officer, I only had a couple of quarts of 40-weight. Hey why is that center line moving back and forth." ... Self-driving vehicles will also fundamentally change the way police patrol.

Alere has become more than an ERP package, according to Rod Hatcher, president of the TIW Corp., which markets the suite. Hatcher made the comments in discussing the roll out of a new TIW website.

Epicor has issued a new version Prophet 21 in a major rewrite of the ERP package for the distribution industry. Available this month, the new product is web-enabled. Epicor said it retained the workflow and core features of the prior version.