I didn't think I would live so long as to see a self-driving car, but it's here. It's not commercially productive yet, but we're on the five-year countdown now. That's the average time it takes to go from convention show floor to dealership show floor. All those buttons and knobs have changed to icons in a display. Everything is regulated by touching and setting parameters, never by turning or twisting or pushing anything - wipers included. All of this since 2007, the advent of the iPhone.
And now cars can see. At least, that's the way to say it using human analogy. Sensors are everywhere on a car so that it can drive itself. It calculates speed, road position, and objects ahead, behind, and to the side microsecond by microsecond.
Amazing. And it will impact the world. And it will impact how a person lives and works in the world. And it will completely leave behind those in the world who don't want to join the new direction the world has taken. And I pity them because they will be fossils in less than a New York minute!!!
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