Celebrities and companies did not disappoint this April Fools’ Day. Some unique pranks surfaced this year that you may not have noticed. Here's a look at some of the most creative.

The Honda Selfie Car

Honda says it prides itself for being on the forefront of the latest automobile technologies. The company "rolled out" its 10 camera-equipped HR-V that is equipped to take selfies. They said the technology uploads photos hands-free to social media sites via HondaLink.

'Twelfie Stick'

Twitter unveiled its "Twelfie Stick" Wednesday, a "highly sophisticated and first-of-its-kind device" that the company says would allow users to tweet out "selfie" pictures directly. Twitter said the device will be available in time for the holiday shopping season for $39.99.

Army Drones to Deliver Pizzas

The U.S. Army proposed using drones to deliver 3-D printed pizzas to men and women on the front lines across the world. Calling this "an expected breakthrough," the Army said the first drone pizza deliveries are to be made by April Fools' Day 2016.

Sam Smith is Straight

The "Stay with Me" singer tweeted that he is straight, which had a female fan asking, "Can you date me now?" One hour later, he posted that is was all a joke.

A Samsung Smart Knife?

Samsung presented its Galaxy BLADE edge, "the world's first smart knife with smart phone capabilities." The phone features a "razor-sharp diamond edge that is tough enough to cut through a lobster tail and sharp enough to slice through tender heirloom tomatoes."

Selfie Shoes

Are selfie sticks too much to handle? Why not get Selfie Shoes from Miz Mooz? The company said the tool adds functionality without sacrificing "comfort our women on-the-go have come to love about our footwear." How does it work? Just insert your phone into the port at the front of any shoe, raise your photo to the perfect angle and click the internal button with a tap of your toe to take a selfie.

Pac-Man Returns?

Google announced in celebration of April Fools' Day that you can now play Pac-Man on Google Maps. How does it work? Open maps in your browser, scroll to the bottom left and click on Pac-Man. Before you know it, you'll have something to eat.

The police officer seen on video apparently verbally abusing an Uber driver in an at-times xenophobic roadside tirade in the West Village earlier this week has been placed on modified duty and transferred, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Wednesday.

"That officer's behavior reflected poorly on everyone who wears our uniform," Bratton said at a news conference before apologizing to the driver and the two passengers. 

Officials with the NYPD's detective union said earlier the officer seen in the now viral video is a member of the NYPD's Joint Terrorism Task Force, an elite group that handles counterterrorism cases in the city alongside FBI agents. The union said in a statement that the officer was leaving the hospital, where he was visiting a injured fellow officer, at the time of the rant.

"He really should not be judged by one isolated incident," said Michael Palladino, the president of the union.

Bratton disagreed, saying, "In that kind of encounter, anger like that is unacceptable. In any kind of encounter, discourtesy like that and language like that is unacceptable."

"No good cop can watch that without a wince," he said. "All good cops know that the officer just made their jobs a little bit harder." 

The altercation, which was captured on video by one of the Uber driver's passengers and has been viewed more than 600,000 times on YouTube, is being investigated by the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board.

The passenger who captured the video, Sanjay Seth, tweeted on Wednesday that he had been interviewed by the body.

According to Seth's YouTube post, his Uber driver honked his car horn at the officer later seen screaming in the video because the officer was trying to park on a Sixth Precinct street in the middle of the afternoon without using any blinkers or hazard lights, and the Uber driver's path to a green light was blocked.

The officer, seen wearing a green tie and blue shirt at points in the passenger video, got out of his unmarked car, which had flashing blue and red lights on the dashboard, and flagged down the Uber driver.

The three-minute video begins as the officer approaches the Uber driver's window and starts yelling at the driver, raising his voice over the Uber driver's muted apologies and efforts to interject.

"Stop it with your mouth, stop it with your, 'For what, sir,'" the officer is heard saying in the video as he curses. "Stop it with that ... and realize the three vehicle and traffic law violations you committed."

"You understand me? I don't know what [epithet] planet you think you're on right now," the officer yells, making fun of the Uber driver's accent.

The officer then slams the hood of the Uber car and walks away; the Uber driver tries to apologize to his passengers, who tell him it was not his fault and inform him a video of the exchange was recorded. One of the passengers said it appeared the officer was on a "power trip"; the other called the man's behavior "really inappropriate."

The officer returns to the Uber car about 90 seconds after slamming the hood and storming off, the video shows, and continues to curse at and belittle the driver. The driver keeps trying to defuse the situation with respectful apologies. Then the officer goes off on him. 

"I don't know where you're coming from or where you think you're appropriate in doing that," the man yells, apparently in reference to the car honk from earlier. "That's not the way it works. How long have you been in this country?"

"Almost how long? Two years?" the officer yells after the driver whispers a response. "I got news for you, and use this lesson: Don't ever do that again. The only reason you're not in handcuffs going to jail and getting summonses in the precinct is because I have things to do.

"That's the only reason that's not happening, because this isn't important enough to me, you're not important enough," he says.

The officer turns toward the passengers in the back seat, asks if they are fares and says something about the Uber driver wasting their days, too. The officer hands the driver some kind of piece of paper that looks like a ticket and leaves as the passenger cellphone video pans to the flashing lights on the dashboard of his vehicle, parked behind the Uber car. 

Seth posted video of the exchange on multiple social media accounts. On his Facebook page, he wrote, "Our Uber driver, Humayun, was abused by a police officer today in New York. The rage, door slamming, throwing items into the car, threatening arrest without cause was bad enough -- but the officer's remarks at the end really took it to another level."

Seth wrote on Facebook that he reported the exchange to the Civilian Complaint Review Board. According to his profile, Seth works at a nonprofit in the city and used to work for the parks department.

Asked about the exchange by NBC 4 New York, Seth wrote, "This very unfortunate incident is between the driver, Uber, the officer, and the relevant authorities."

Uber called the behavior in the video "wrong" and "unacceptable," and said it appreciated the NYPD investigating.

"We are in touch with our driver-partner who was subjected to this terrible experience and will continue to provide any support he needs," Matthew Wing, a spokesman for the ride share company, said. 

Bratton said Wednesday: "I want to extend an apology to the driver of that vehicle and the two passengers in that vehicle for the behavior of that officer." 

The CCRB handles complaints about four kinds of alleged police misconduct: force, abuse of authority, discourtesy and offensive language. Bratton said "the actions engaged by the officer based on the video alone would indicate that those fall under the jurisdiction of the CCRB and their particular areas of jurisdiction." 

A woman who used to work for the Los Angeles Police Department was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff with SWAT officers following a domestic dispute at her Van Nuys home, police said.

A man who identified himself as an LAPD detective called police about 12:15 a.m. to report that he was a victim of a domestic dispute, police said.

He said during the call that his girlfriend inside the home was a former LAPD 911 operator who had access to a revolver and an AK-47, police said. When officers arrived, she refused to come out of the home in the 14900 block of Lemay Street.

Neighboring homes were evacuated during the barricade and standoff. A SWAT team arrived about 4 a.m. and released tear gas into the home by about 7 a.m.

SWAT officers went into the home and took the woman into custody before 9 a.m., police said. She was being taken to a hospital for evaluation, but no injuries were reported.

It was the second domestic call made from the same location in recent days, with the first made earlier Tuesday morning, officials said.

The AK-47 is an assault military-style rifle.

A man was shot dead at a burger joint in Palmdale in what witnesses said was a possible fight over a bike just before closing time Tuesday night.

The shooting occurred outside Sky Burgers in the 1800 block of East Palmdale Boulevard at 10 p.m. Tuesday, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spokesman said. 

A burger stand employee, who did not want to be identified, said they saw a gunman and the victim fighting over a bicycle before shots were fired.

"I just ran out," said Donna Medina, a Sky Burgers employee. "It happened so fast. I just saw myself next to him on my knees and I just said a prayer and I started crying."

The victim's girlfriend was with him at the time, and according to her sister he had gone outside to stop two males from stealing his bicycle.

The 41-year-old victim died at a hospital.

Police were searching for the gunman.

A Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, man choked his estranged wife and used a chainsaw to kill her before ending his own life with the machine, the county coroner ruled Wednesday.

Nicole Peppelman, 43, was murdered in the basement of the family's home along the 1100 block of Country Lane in Lower Moreland just before 1 p.m. Tuesday, officials said.

Montgomery County Coroner Dr. Walter Hofman said the mother of three suffered gaping cutting wounds to her abdomen from a chainsaw. She also was stabbed in the neck and choked, an autopsy revealed.

Her husband, 48-year-old Christopher Peppelman, then took the chainsaw to his right thigh and abdomen, according to the coroner's report. His death was ruled a suicide.

The couple's 14-year-old son discovered the bloody scene, officials said. The chainsaw was laying next to them. Their other two children were not home.

Friends told NBC10 that the couple had been separated and police said they had been to the home for domestic issues in the past.

Police and prosecutors continue to investigate the case.

In recognition of Autism Awareness Month in April, NBC4 Southern California “Today in LA” Anchor Daniella Guzman and Telemundo 52 Anchor Dunia Elvir share important information that every parent should know in a Public Service Announcement airing on both stations throughout the month.

According to The Help Group, a nonprofit organization that serves children with special needs, Autism Spectrum Disorder, commonly referred to as autism, is a group of brain-based developmental disabilities characterized by impaired social communication and interaction, and restricted, repetitive behaviors, interests or activities.

Below are early warning signs to look for in a young child's development. For more details and support, visit www.thehelpgroup.org.

By 4 Months of Age

• Does not make eye contact or makes little eye contact
• Does not seem interested in other people
• Does not show as much interest in people as objects
• Does not react by looking at people when they are making “social sounds,” such as humming or clapping
• Does not have a social smile (does not smile back at someone who smiles at them)
• Does not show interest in watching people’s faces

By 12 Months of Age

• Does not combine eye contact with smiling
• Does not babble (or the babble doesn’t sound like “talking”)
• Does not look where another person is pointing
• Does not try to engage other people in what he or she is looking at or doing
• Does not engage in interactive gestures, such as giving, showing or reaching for parents
• Does not respond when his or her name is called
• Does not show a caring or concerned reaction to other people crying or in distress
• Does not use gestures, such as waving “hi” or “bye,” or use the index finger to point

By 24 Months of Age

• Does not look toward an object that is pointed to
• Does not point to share interests with others, such as pointing to an appealing toy
• Does not imitate common activities of others, such as sweeping the floor
• Does not learn simple, new interactive routines
• Does not develop pretend or make-believe play, such as feeding a doll
• Does not use single words by 16 months
• Does not spontaneously use meaningful two-word phrases (“go car” or “look doggie”) by 24 months

Other Early Signs

• Experiences a significant loss of language or social skills that he or she once had
• Echoes what others say (echolalia) without regular spontaneous speech
• Demonstrates speech that sounds mechanical, almost robotic
• Uses limited or atypical facial expressions
• Prefers to play alone or does not show interest in other children
• May not enjoy cuddling or being touched, unless it is on his or her own terms
• Displays repetitive body movements (hand flapping, spinning)
• Fixates upon a single object, such as a spoon or book
• Cannot tolerate change in routine or environment, such as a new toothbrush or a replacement for a lost toy
• Increased or decreased sensitivity to sensory experiences (light, texture, sound, taste, smell, movement)
• Lines items up or puts things in order repeatedly
• Has excessive tantrums and is difficult to console
• Walks on tiptoes
• Unusual eating & sleeping habits
• Gives unrelated answers to questions

A Canadian diplomat's 15-year-old son -- already charged with murder in a deadly shootout with drug dealers police say he and his brother were trying to rob -- now faces new charges, after police say he threatened to shoot a detective in the head while in custody.

But the boy's father has said his younger son didn't kill anyone and was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time, looking out for his older brother.

The younger teen is in custody and his 17-year-old brother was killed in a shootout when police say the pair -- both sons of Roxanne Dube, a prominent Canadian diplomat working in Miami -- tried to rob the drug dealers in a deal gone wrong. Another man is also charged.

The brothers' father, Germano Wabafiyebazu, told Canada's Global News that he was stunned by his older son's death and defended his younger son, who he said fired shots only to alert police.

"You can’t believe. You can’t believe. Terrible. You can’t believe that happened, but what can I do?" Wabafiyebazu said in an interview that aired Wednesday on NBC 6.

The older son was killed in the Monday shootout following a drug deal gone wrong, police say. Another 17-year-old named Joshua Wright was also killed, that teen's family confirmed. The Canadian government is working with Miami police to investigate.

Police believe Dube's and Wabafiyebazu's sons had been planning to rob the drug dealers, as NBC 6 first reported. The pair showed up to the drug deal in a Canadian government vehicle with official consular plates, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC 6.

The shooting began after the older Dube son went into Wright's apartment, one law enforcement source said. The younger brother had stayed in the car outside to act as a lookout, sources said.

Wabafiyebazu told Global News that after his younger son heard the gunshots, he rushed into the house to find his older brother dead, then began shooting in the air, drawing police to the scene and leading to his own arrest.

The older teen had been getting into trouble recently, Wabafiyebazu said, and appeared to have developed a problem with marijuana.

He said he had worried about what might happen when his children moved with his ex-wife to Miami, and about what kinds of friends his older son might make there.

"I would lie to you if I didn’t notice or expect it, that something like that would happen to him," the teens' father said, adding that he had not had any such worries about his younger son.

One of the accused drug dealers in Monday's shootout was also arrested and charged with felony murder.

Anthony Rodriguez, 19, who had been wounded and driven away, was caught and charged with felony murder and possession of marijuana with intent to sell.

Rodriguez had been arrested back in February on gun and drug charges, after police said they found a loaded stolen gun, drugs and $4,000 in cash in his car at a gas station. The charges against him were dropped.

A third person was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder Tuesday night in connection with the beating of an 87-year-old man during a robbery near the Rose Bowl.

The victim was out for a morning walk March 27 when he was attacked by at least three people near the famous football stadium in Pasadena.

On Tuesday, a 19-year-old Rowland Heights residents turned himself in to Pasadena police. Two other 19-year-old men surrendered earlier this week and were booked on suspicion of attempted murder, robbery and elder abuse.

The victim was hospitalized in critical condition after the attackers confronted him on a popular recreational walking route on West Drive, north of Salvia Canyon Road. He suffered head injuries and was robbed of a pouch that police said contained personal information.

Police reviewed surveillance video as part of the investigation that showed three men and a woman in their teens and 20s at a Pasadena service station attempting to use the victim's credit card shortly after the attack, officials said. It was not clear whether the woman is still sought.

A teenager taken into Connecticut state custody and forced to undergo chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma against her wishes hoped of leaving the hospital to finish her treatments, but that will not happen.

The motion her attorneys filed was denied on Wednesday and Cassandra C., a 17-year-old Windsor Locks teen, will have to remain in the hospital until she finishes treatments later this month.

The teen, who has been away from home and under the care of the state since the second week of December, never wanted chemotherapy. She pushed back, missing doctor's appointments, and ran away from home, but lost in court and was forced to continue treatment.

Cassandra, who has since gone into remission, says she was willing to go along with chemotherapy but wanted to be reunited with her mother and finish the treatment plan at home.

According to doctors at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, where Cassandra is staying, the teen has an 85 percent chance of survival with chemotherapy.

DCF officials said in a statement in January that they were exploring options for Cassandra to live in a specialized group home when she was released from the hospital.

The state's highest court reviewed the case under an emergency appeal filed by attorneys representing Cassandra and her mother, taking up an issue previously decided by several other states – whether some minors are mature enough to make decisions about their own bodies.

The judges ultimately decided that Cassandra is not mature and needed to continue to receive chemotherapy. She turns 18 in September, a year after her cancer diagnosis.

Earlier this month, Cassandra testified in court through video conference from the hospital in hopes that she would be able to leave the hospital to finish her treatments. On Wednesday, the court denied the motion.

Joette Katz, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families released a statement in response to the decision.

"The Department is looking forward to the day later this month when Cassandra can happily return home after her treatment is completed and the doctors are confident that she has beaten the cancer. We know how difficult this has been for Cassandra and her family, and while we are very pleased with her response to the treatment, we also know this has been a traumatic and scary thing through which she has suffered. We want her to complete her treatment so that she can return home knowing she has put this completely behind her," Katz said in the statement.

A court filing by Andrew Getty, the oil heir found dead in Los Angeles, says he had a serious health problem.

The 47-year-old Getty, whose grandfather J. Paul Getty's fortune made his family among the richest in U.S. history, wrote in a March 16 filing for a restraining order against his girlfriend that a rise in his blood pressure would place him at risk of injury or death. He didn't specify the condition.

"A rise in my blood-pressure places me in grave risk of substantial and irreparable injury or death," he wrote.

Getty was found dead at his home Tuesday. A coroner's investigator says it was likely due to natural causes or an accident because medication was found.

Neither the coroner nor police had officially identified the man, but a statement from 47-year-old Andrew Getty's parents, Ann and Gordon Getty, confirmed their son had died Tuesday.

Gordon Getty is the San Francisco billionaire scion of the late J. Paul Getty, whose oil fortune made his family among the richest in U.S. history.

Andrew Getty's death appeared to be from natural causes, Los Angeles County coroner's Assistant Chief Ed Winter said, but it has been initially called an accident because of medication found at the scene. He said coroner's officials need to wait for the results of further examination and toxicology tests, which could take up to 10 weeks to process.

"The tentative information that we do have is that he was not feeling good for the last couple months," Winter said Tuesday night, "and he supposedly had an appointment tomorrow with a personal physician."

A woman called to report someone had died and sent officers to the gated, century-old home in the hills popular with the film industry elite shortly after 2:15 p.m. They found a man dead in a bathroom, police spokesman Jack Richter said.

The caller was cooperating with the investigation, but Richter said he did not know her identity. She was not arrested.

Getty is one of four sons of Gordon Getty, who is one of five sons of J. Paul Getty, founder of the Getty Oil Co. who died in 1976 at age 82.

J. Paul Getty was an avid collector of art and antiquities, and the Getty name is perhaps best known in the Los Angeles area for the museum that houses much of it, along with many other high-priced artworks bought since his death.

Another Getty grandson, J. Paul Getty III, lost an ear in a grisly kidnapping in Rome when he was a teenager. The family reportedly stalled on paying a ransom, and the kidnappers cut off part of his ear, sending the severed organ to a newspaper to prove they had taken him captive.

The oil heir, then 16, was freed after five months in captivity and a payment of $2.7 million. He died in 2011 at age 54.

Ken Seto remembers Brenda Sierra's laugh and the times she talked about one day going to college in his career exploration class at Montebello's Schurr High School in 2002.

He remembers the 15-year-old's upbeat attitude and that she was a top fundraiser by selling candy, food and knickknacks for a mentorship program called Renaissance that helped motivate students.

"This kid was special," Seto said. "She was so happy. She wanted to become a great student."

Brenda didn't get the chance.

She was kidnapped on her way to school on Oct. 18, 2002, then repeatedly raped and killed. Her beaten body was found the next day 50 miles away in the San Bernardino Mountains.

After more than 12 years, deputies announced last month an arrest in the case and promised three more. Rosemary Chavira, who was 15 at the time and a classmate of Brenda's, pleaded not guilty to kidnap and murder charges in a case detectives say was gang retaliation because Brenda's brother had testified in court against gang members.

Seto was relieved to hear about an arrest.

"I felt really good for the family," he said. "I just saw how much the pain and the suffering ... nobody could put the pieces together. It didn't make sense."

For Seto, the news not only brought closure but it also rekindled talk of naming a scholarship in Brenda's honor.

Seto said he'd nominate the scholarship to someone like Brenda — fun, outgoing, energetic — in May or June and select the winner from the next graduating class. He said he'd try to raise $1,000 annually.

"We'll look for a student who's really trying to improve," Seto said.

Seto is hoping to meet soon with Brenda's sister, Fabiola Saavedra, to pitch the idea.

Saavedra did not return calls seeking comment, but in a 2009 article for the Los Angeles Times she said she kept her sister's memory alive.

"I cry for her," she told The Times. "But I have to move on."

Seto's convinced a scholarship is the best way to honor a special girl.

"Brenda didn't have an opportunity to go to college or her senior prom," Seto said. "I want to give someone a chance to do all the things that Brenda didn't get to do.

"It keeps the memory of Brenda with us. We can continue to tell kids about opportunities that you may assume you're going to have and sometimes not lucky enough to get."

Confusing parking signs have had Angelenos up in arms for years.

Those days are finally, hopefully, coming to an end with the Los Angeles City Council’s approval of a pilot program Wednesday to revamp the often complicated multi-sign posts that litter the city.

What will the new signs look like when they’re unveiled Friday? Imagine a green and red grid that has the hours of the day color coded. Green for yes and red for no.

Hopefully the new system will save an unsuspecting parking violator $68, the average cost of a parking ticket in LA.

Residents’ woes of LA’s befuddling parking signs often make it to social media. Twitter user Merib writes: “‘I have no idea if I will get a ticket’-response to almost all parking signs in LA.”

Julia Farino posted on Twitter: “Why can’t the parking signs in LA be consistent? Last night I misunderstood a parking sign I’d never seen before & got another ticket.”

To implement the program the council approved the Los Angeles Department of Transportation to spend up to $20,000 of the Special Parking Revenue Fund for the installation of the new signs in downtown LA. It also authorized LADOT to make any technical corrections and clarifications for the the program to work.

For the first time in state history, cities and towns across California must implement mandatory restrictions to reduce water use during the fourth consecutive year of drought under an executive order announced Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

The unprecedented move follows the lowest snowpack ever recorded. Snowpack in the Sierra mountain range melts during spring and provides water for an estimated 25 million Californians.

"Today we are standing on dry grass where there should be five feet of snow. This historic drought demands unprecedented action," Brown said Wednesday. "Therefore, I’m issuing an executive order mandating substantial water reductions across our state. As Californians, we must pull together and save water in every way possible."

Mandatory water reductions will be put in place by the State Water Resources Control Board across California to reduce water usage by 25 percent -- a saving that will amount to about 1.5 million acre-feet of water over the next nine months, according to Brown's office.

The drought's effects are rippling across the state, hurting wildlife and forcing farmers to leave fields unplanted. So far this winter, wildfires are burning through nearly four times as many acres as usual.

Brown's order announced Wednesday will:

• Replace 50 million square feet of lawns throughout the state with drought tolerant landscaping in partnership with local governments;
• Direct the creation of a temporary, statewide consumer rebate program to replace old appliances with more water and energy efficient models;
• Require campuses, golf courses, cemeteries and other large landscapes to make significant cuts in water use; and
• Prohibit new homes and developments from irrigating with potable water unless water-efficient drip irrigation systems are used, and ban watering of ornamental grass on public street medians.

Water restrictions approved earlier this month banned restaurants from offering water unless customers ask and forced hotels and motels to offer guests a chance to deline fresh towels and sheets.

Those restrictions will require local water departments to cut back the number of days residents can water their lawns. If they don't, residents must follow a state rule limiting their sprinkling to twice a week. Homeowners are also barred from using sprinklers on days when it rains and for the next two days after.

Agricultural water users will now be required to report more water use information to state regulations.

Additional actions required by the order announced Wednesday include:

• Taking action against water agencies in depleted groundwater basins that have not shared data on their groundwater supplies with the state;
• Updating standards for toilets and faucets and outdoor landscaping in residential communities and taking action against communities that ignore these standards; and
• Making permanent monthly reporting of water usage, conservation and enforcement actions by local water suppliers.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Two people died and a child was injured Wednesday when Hawthorne police interupted a shooting in progress, officials said.

Hawthorne police Lt. Aimee Yoshida said no officers were injured in the shooting, but she said there were "multiple injuries" involving other people.

Police said a child was shot by a suspect in the shooting, which occurred around 12:45 p.m. at Rosecrans and Kornblum avenues.

It was not immediately clear if the two people who died -- a man and a woman -- were suspects in the original shooting.

City News Service contributed to this report.

How many miles to the gallon does your car get?

Well, it depends who you ask. The government uses two calculations: one touted by politicians, the other one a little more accurate.

NBC4 news partners at nonprofit FairWarning has found that there is a wide gap between the two, which means sweeping goals to increase miles-per-gallon on cars across the board might not be helping as much as you think.

While the number on your sticker may be the closest to an accurate count, politicians use another math to come up with required standards.

Back in 2011, the White House announced that it had reached a deal with automakers to get cars to 54.5 miles per gallon by the 2025 model year.

While the goal, and the reality, is still good for the environment, some experts say that number is misleading. You’ll more likely be getting 37 miles per gallon in the real world.

The difference, experts say, is in the math.

The government standard, called CAFE standards, was created in the 70s and does not account for actual driving conditions. It is an average manufacturers must meet on all the cars they make combined. It includes certain credits and does not factor in things like driving with your air conditioner on.

But some experts say that standard is about 25 percent above the actual mileage the average car will get.

The number you see on the “sticker” of a new car is more accurate. It’s set by the EPA and specific to the individual car.

For the full story, visit FairWarning.

For a side-by-side comparison of the two standards, visit the EPA here.

To find your mileage, visit the site here.

For more gas mileage tips, visit fueleconomy.gov.

Springtime, to spring fans, often arrives in distinct chapters. You have the warmer days and slightly less chilly nights, to begin with. The grass gets a wee bit greener. Tiny leaves leaf up trees and then? Flowers go to town, filling plots with pretty petals of every hue.

The renewal of a portion of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has also seen a chapter or two dramatically unfold. The multi-year construction project, the one breaking ground and building upwards at the front of the historic San Marino gardens, hit its first mark in January, with the reveal of the new gift shop, a store notably larger than its predecessor.

As for chapter two in the story of the new Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center? That unfolds on Saturday, April 4, when the remaining portion of The Huntington's newest addition makes its formal public debut. 

Well-played, Huntington. A springtime entrance is pretty splashy, indeed.

What will fans of the nearly century-old nature-and-art destination spy around the new entrance area? The Rose Hills Foundation Garden Court, for one, with its stately dome. There's a 400-seat auditorium making its first hello on April 4 and a cafe with seating indoors and out. And an orientation gallery, too.

All of the new components "are arranged amid new, beautifully landscaped, drought-tolerant gardens." There are six-and-a-half additional acres of gardens in the debuting area.

If you've visited the The Huntington since April 2013, you've seen the construction project in the busy, fences-up-machinery-on process. But if you want a from-above peek behind those fences, you can watch the center come together via a time-lapse video from Erdman Video Systems. The video was taken from July 2013 to March 2015.

On Wednesday night at Staples Center, the Los Angeles Lakers lost. This time, the New Orleans Pelicans flew into Los Angeles and claimed a 21-point victory with Anthony Davis scoring 20 points, pulling down seven rebounds and claiming six assists. Also, the big man finished with four block shots, which was twice as many as the entire Lakers team.

While the game got out of hand in the second half and even reached a 25-point difference at one point, rookie Jordan Clarkson continued to improve. On this occasion, the 22-year-old point guard started strong and put up 11 points, five rebounds and five assists on 4/5 shooting in the first quarter.

For most rookies, that would be a great game and not just a great quarter, but Clarkson is not playing like any ordinary rookie. Most recently, Clarkson scored 26 points, dished out 11 assists and grabbed six rebounds in an overtime victory over the Philadelphia 76ers. That was on Monday.

On Wednesday, Clarkson's inspired first quarter allowed the Lakers to hang with the Pelicans for the first 12 minutes. Over the final three quarters, however, the Pelicans would outscore the Lakers 84 to 61 and comfortably win 113-92. Clarkson, however, managed to play his game despite the unbalanced scoreline.

When the rookie eventually got the hook with 7:12 to play in the game, he had 18 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds. Had Clarkson managed three more rebounds, he would have joined Elgin Baylor, Jerry West and Earvin "Magic" Johnson as the only Lakers' rookies to ever record a triple-double.

"I was not aware at all," Lakers coach Byron Scott claimed he did not know the rookie was approaching his first career triple-double when he pulled Clarkson with over seven minutes to play in a one-sided loss.

After the game, Clarkson said he did not know that he was only three rebounds away until he left the game. Incidentally, Kobe Bryant told Clarkson he only needed three more boards to accomplish the feat. However, the rookie said he did not particularly care about statistics and preferred to only focus on winning, which the Lakers did not come close to doing on Wednesday night.

Despite falling short of his first career triple-double, Clarkson's play dominated the post-game discussion. The rookie recorded only the second double-double of his career, and he did it in back-to-back games. Further, Clarkson only committed one turnover and made seven of his nine shots.

Even in a lopsided defeat, Clarkson still provided the Lakers signs of success.

Next, the Lakers will practice on Thursday before welcoming the Portland Trail Blazers to Staples Center on Friday night.

Notes: Lakers rookie Tarik Black scored 16 points, which was a career-high. Ryan Kelly scored 12 points--meaning he has scored in double figures in four of six games since moving to the starting lineup (and moving to power forward). Wayne suffered a mild separation of the right shoulder and will be reevaluated on Thursday.