Are we're rolling? We're rolling, right? Just on everything here.

Okay, so we need a robot car story? I got a robot car story.

You have a robot car story. Go ahead. All right.

All right. So last spring I was invited to attend this kind of fancy invitation only workshop about

autonomous vehicles. There were like about 30 people in the room and and actually

kind of some heavy hitters you know it, like a couple of Obama administration cabinet secretaries and some

tech and real estate CEOs and big environmental policy people. The event was billed as a kind of blue sky workshop to take

advantage of this unique opportunity we have right now to plan and prepare for

the advent of autonomous vehicles. And this is the elite, you guys were the elite who are going to figure out how to do this.

Totally.

We were like the special people who'd been chosen and it was such a great premise and so cool to be in

this room that even like the 78 year old real estate

CEO stayed for the entire four hour workshop and was just like brainstorming like a

college freshman like everybody was totally into it.

And the workshop ends and we say goodbye

and I'm heading down the elevator

with three other workshop attendees

and two employees of the real estate company

and the elevator just gets stuck.

No, seriously.

Yeah, just, the elevator just stops moving and you have that moment where you know there

are like six people who don't know each other in an elevator and you kind of look around you're like is anyone all right first is

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