Alright, living in the future is pretty damn cool!

We were in San Francisco this weekend and decided to try riding in a Waymo. This was insanely wild. It’s such an incredible novelty at first — taking pictures, watching with fascination as the the steering wheel moves all by itself and the car seamlessly navigates around obstacles and through traffic.

After awhile, you settle into it and quickly forget how crazy it is.

Via: http://grist.org/article/high-gas-prices-whatevs-my-phone-gets-me-where-i-want-to-go/

“The iPhone is the Ford Mustang of today,” Thilo Koslowski, Gartner’s lead automotive analyst, recently told the New York Times.

What’s caused the change? For starters, driving has lost its cool with young Americans, who frankly have better things to do than sit behind the wheel of a tin can lodged in gridlock. And then there are gas prices that are expected to top $4.25 a gallon by April.