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Robert Chapman
I just drove from my house to Academy Sports here in town and didn't touch the steering wheel or the accelerator or brake pedal once in my Tesla. This has happened several times now. This is not the first time I've done an end-to-end, but it's becoming so commonplace, it's really wild. It's worth reflecting on just how much driving is changing.

What's also interesting is to look around and just see how much it's not changing for anybody else. It's one of those things that's creeping up in subtle ways. As the William Gibson quote goes, "The future is here, just unevenly distributed." That is very much the case as I look around and wonder what it will look like in the next five or ten years.

These things have a funny way of catching up and sneaking up on you, and then suddenly something that seemed few and far between suddenly seems obvious and everywhere. And we wonder why we would ever do it any other way, kind of like tap to pay. It wasn't very long ago that that was something only rarely seen or used, but now seemingly it's what everyone does. And I don't know that anybody would want to go back. I feel like I'm experiencing that in the drive today.

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