Self-driving cars

March 25, 2017 at 10:48 am · Filed under mindfulness

Almost nothing is more personal, in the modern world, than the choices one makes while driving. People hardly recognize how often they improvise behind the wheel, how tickled they are by banners at Target, or by memories fortified driving toward some surprising point.

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  Robert Basil wrote @ March 25, 2017 at 4:48 pm

Telling a car where to go is not the same as driving. In the context of my post, this means that the former activity is devoid of joy.

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  sanjose61 wrote @ March 26, 2017 at 10:13 pm

My most common observation on driving is less optimistic… that driving is proof that most humans can do something for decades and never get better at it.

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  Robert Basil wrote @ March 26, 2017 at 10:20 pm

What a great comment- thank you!

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  sanjose61 wrote @ March 26, 2017 at 10:14 pm

But… I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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