It's official: Self-driving cars are here. This week Uber's autonomous taxi fleet picked up its first passengers in Pittsburgh, while Ford announced that its self-driving car will have no steering wheel, gas pedal, or brakes. Ford is also working on cars that can harvest drinking water from thin air -- and then dispense it from a dashboard tap. In other auto news, the Chevy Bolt scored an EPA-certified driving range of 238 miles -- further than the base Tesla Model S. Tesla sued an oil exec for allegedly impersonating Elon Musk to steal trade secrets. And design studio Duffy London debuted the solar-powered super yacht of the future.

An explosion that injured 29 people in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood was an "intentional act," but there so far are no concrete links to international terrorist groups, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. Speaking to reporters at the scene, Cuomo said that investigators had found no links to international terrorist groups, but added that "a bomb exploding in New York is obviously an act of terrorism." He said the state planned to deploy 1,000 state police and National Guard officers to patrol the city's train stations and public areas ahead of New Yorkers returning to work on Monday. The increased security, the governor said, was to "err on the side of caution. We want New Yorkers to be confident that New York is up and running and we're doing everything we can" to keep them safe.

To the editor: We should not confuse high income/style of living with high reported "taxable" income. People who have very high/comfortable living styles often report meager levels of "taxable income." To me, it's little wonder Trump seems so reluctant to release those returns of his. Current audit, or minimized reported taxable income that would shock even his most ardent followers? To the editor: About the only growth I could see in his plan was that of the federal deficit, which, in turn, will further balloon the national debt. It is a plan riddled with assumptions.

In 2008, when Hillary Clinton first ran for the Democratic presidential nomination against Barack Obama, I asked one of her oldest allies how she could be losing a race that appeared to be hers to win. "I've known Hillary for many years, ever since she came to Arkansas," former Sen. Dale Bumpers told me. "She'll find a way to screw it up. Eight years later, the conventional wisdom is that Clinton is a much better candidate. She learned hard lessons from her failure in 2008; her campaign this year is smarter and less chaotic.

To the editor: The casual reader might interpret Robert Strauss' op-ed essay on James Buchanan as an indictment of the value of legislative experience when evaluating the qualifications of a presidential candidate. For those folks, I would urge them to re-read Strauss' closing statement: "The presidency is a singular job whose best practitioners apparently are just singularly adept people." This attribute is not readily apparent in the GOP nominee. It seems to me to imply that the best presidents have little or, maybe more importantly, no prior government experience. The implication is that our worst presidents have many years of government experience. Yet I think if one looks closely at the list of "best presidents" we see men with backgrounds that very much connect them to government.

To the editor: So Hillary Clinton waited a few days before disclosing to the the media that she was diagnosed with pneumonia. With that short delay began the Great Health Scandal of 2016 that is now being covered obsessively. Donald Trump reluctantly released a short outlandish "health" report from a wacky doctor, and he pretty much got away with it. His appearance on Dr. Oz should put everyone's mind to rest, right? Meanwhile, the press rarely calls him out on ridiculous, vile, insulting, hateful, profane and ignorant remarks and rantings.

To the editor: Ann Friedman's opinion piece touched home. While I didn't know it at the time, I was a second-wave feminist in 1962 attending Pasadena City College. When I learned I had to participate in the Rose Queen process as part of my physical education class, I adamantly refused. My instructor was stunned; I had to write an essay about sports instead, which I was happy to do. I'd never heard the word feminism at that point, but my goodness, when Phyllis Schlafly started her campaign to keep women at home, I was outraged.

So many people are registering drones and applying for drone pilot licenses that federal aviation officials say they are contemplating the possibility of millions of unmanned aircraft crowding the nation's skies in the not-too-distant future. In the nine months since the Federal Aviation Administration created a drone registration system, more than 550,000 unmanned aircraft have been registered with the agency, said Earl Lawrence, director of the FAA's drone office. Speaking at the first meeting of a new government-industry drone advisory committee, Lawrence said new registrations are coming in at a rate of 2,000 a day. The FAA began issuing drone pilot licenses to commercial operators less than a month ago. Already, 13,710 people have applied to take the pilot exam, and 5,080 have passed it, Lawrence said.

Question: After moving into my condo 15 years ago I attended a board meeting with several fed-up owners complaining of many unresolved problems. I thought things would change; I was wrong, nothing changed. I began a letter-writing campaign to all 75 homeowners to get the board to see the folly of its ways but that didn't work. I wrote my legislators and no one was interested in helping in any meaningful way. A couple months ago, I wrote to the state attorney general complaining of poor management and misappropriation of association funds.

This Wednesday, the tech billionaire investor announced an investment in Luminance, a newly launched startup that uses artificial technology to read contracts in order help law firms with the arduous process of due diligence for mergers and acquisitions (M&A). It's not a "sexy" piece of technology, Lynch argues -- but one that has huge implications for the way we live our lives, and is indicative of a quiet revolution in artificial intelligence. What this is is probably an example of what's going to be changing a lot of things. If you can get machine technology to be reading contracts, it's going to be changing a lot of the world around us ... you're seeing the beginning of a new age." He has since founded venture capital firm Invoke Capital -- the vehicle through which the investment in Luminance was made. This week, Business Insider sat down with the investor to discuss Luminance, Brexit, his augmented reality plans, and why he likes having an "unfair advantage." Mike Lynch is an investor in Luminance -- but was also instrumental in helping create it. "The bit that makes it possible is the machine learning, and that was being done by some research people at Cambridge, and I actually have a connection because my PhD a long, long time ago was in machine learning," Lynch said. "I was introduced to them, and what they were doing looked great, but I said to them'look, you gotta go and meet some real world people.' "So they started getting real data and they met up with [law firm] Slaughter and May, and basically the machine learnt from Slaughter and May how to do these thing and at that point they made a little company. They got a CEO who is a lady who'd actually been involved in a lot of M&A deals over their career and we funded it, and it's been developing the product, and today it comes out into the bright lights of day."