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Okay, so, you know, gotta talk about this Tesla Wii robot event.

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I mean, talk about an entrance.

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Yeah, they really went all out.

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20 cyber cabs, no drivers, just cruising onto the stage.

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Warner Bros.

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Discovery Studio, no less.

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I know, right?

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Where they filmed Batman.

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Like they were trying to one up the Batmobile or something.

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Definitely sent a message.

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But okay, let's ditch the theatrics for a sec.

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Rogo Taxis.

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Is this really happening?

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Well, that's the million dollar question, isn't it?

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Because I feel like we've been hearing about this forever.

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We have, and it's easy to get swept up in the hype, right?

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But with this event, I think it's fair to say Tesla's sending a clear signal.

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They're all in.

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Okay, so then the big question.

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How soon till we're all hailing Robo Taxis?

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Well, to understand that, let's start with the cyber cab itself.

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Oh yeah.

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This thing is wild.

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Like a cyber truck, but miniaturized.

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Very angular, very futuristic, aggressively futuristic almost.

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Yeah.

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And no steering wheel, no pedals.

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They are not messing around.

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Nope.

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They designed this vehicle from the ground up for full autonomy.

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Which is different from like every other company out there.

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They're just trying to retrofit their existing models.

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Exactly.

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Tesla is not just adding a self-driving feature.

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They're completely rethinking what a car can be.

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So how does this like fit into their bigger plan?

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What's the strategy here?

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So they're aiming for this two pronged approach.

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One, a dedicated Robo Taxi fleet, think like a super high tech Uber.

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Right.

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Makes sense.

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But here's where it gets really interesting.

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Option two.

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They want to tap into the existing Tesla market.

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Wait, what you mean?

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Your car becomes the taxi.

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Hold on.

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You're saying my car could be out there like giving rides while I'm at work?

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Exactly.

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You're at the office.

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Your model three is out there hustling, earning you some extra cash.

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Your car is a little entrepreneur.

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Whoa.

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Okay.

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My head is spinning a little.

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That's a lot.

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So many questions.

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It's a lot to unpack for sure.

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There are definitely logistical hurdles to overcome, but you can't deny the potential.

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No, absolutely.

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I mean, that's a complete game changer.

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Talk about disrupting an industry.

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Right.

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The transportation industry as we know it could be completely upended.

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And for Tesla, from a business standpoint, it's brilliant.

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Because they're not just selling cars anymore.

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Exactly.

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They're selling a service, a piece of a transportation ecosystem and the potential revenue.

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Through the roof.

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Wow.

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It's like they're taking a page from Amazon.

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You know, not just the product, but the whole world around that product.

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Exactly.

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And they're banking on all of us being ready to ditch driving for good.

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Whether we are or not, that's another story.

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That is a big question, isn't it?

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And speaking of big bets, we got to talk about Elon Musk's predictions from the event.

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Right.

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Like always got to have those.

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Because saying he's aiming for ambitious timelines is putting it mildly.

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Yeah, this event was classic Elon.

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Like remember when he just casually dropped that you'll be able to buy a cyber cab?

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Wait, really?

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Not just like hail one, actually own one.

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Straight up.

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Yeah.

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Owning a robo taxi could be in your driveway by, oh, 2026, he says.

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Okay.

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First of all, Elon time.

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So let's see what actually happens.

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But also imagine just casually parking your robo taxi next to the minivan.

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Right.

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It's wild.

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And the price point he threw out under $30,000.

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Like he's trying to make it as accessible as the Toyota Corolla or something.

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Which on one hand, kind of cool, right?

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Like democratizing access to this deck.

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But also, are we ready for that?

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That's the million dollar question.

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The tech is one thing, but the societal integration, whole other ballgame.

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Think about the regulations, insurance nightmare.

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Not to mention just people trying to drive these things.

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People can barely handle parallel parking now.

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Imagine if every car is self-driving.

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And that's before we even touch on his time in the US.

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Before we even touch on his timeline for full self-driving rollout.

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No supervision, no backup driver.

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Next year, Texas and California.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I want to be optimistic.

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Yeah.

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But come on.

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It's great he has these goals.

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But there's a reason California has such strict rules around autonomous vehicles.

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They're not going to just wave this through.

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Especially with everything surrounding Tesla's autopilot already, right?

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All the investigations, the lawsuits.

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Public trust is going to be a big hurdle to clear.

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Totally.

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It's like that whole thing you said about parking lots becoming parks, right?

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Because we won't need them.

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Yeah.

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I love the optimism.

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But first, maybe we make sure these things can handle a four-way stop without incident.

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Exactly.

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Let's nail the basics before we start redesigning cities around robo taxes.

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OK, speaking of things that sound like they're straight out of a movie.

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Oh, yeah.

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Optimist serving drinks on stage.

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Definitely a moment.

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So surreal.

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But also, kind of felt like a carefully choreographed tech demo, right?

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Totally.

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Controlled environment, pre-programmed tasks.

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It's easy to make a robot look impressive on a stage.

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Right.

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But getting it to do your laundry, that's different.

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To be fair, Tesla's robotics team has made some serious progress.

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Just getting optimists to walk around and manipulate objects is huge.

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For sure.

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But Musk was talking about robot companions, like integrating into our daily lives.

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And that's a whole different level of complexity.

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We're a long way from robots being able to understand and respond

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to the nuances of human interaction.

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It's kind of like, remember when the first iPhone came out?

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Everyone freaked out.

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But could anyone have predicted what it would become?

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Is optimist that?

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Maybe.

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It's too early to tell.

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But Tesla's forcing us to think about it, right?

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The role robots will play in our lives.

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Yeah.

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And that's something worth actually considering.

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This is bigger than just cool new gadgets.

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This is the future of work, of society.

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I don't know about you, but I am feeling a lot to process after all that.

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Kind of like Tesla just gave us this peek into their version of the future.

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And it's like, whoa, what do you walk away with?

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What's the big takeaway for you?

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I think for me, it comes down to this idea that Tesla's not just selling us

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cars or even robots.

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They're selling a whole vision of the future.

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Right, like a story we all want to be a part of.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Effortless transportation, robots as companions, maybe even making you

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some extra cash on the side.

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It's exciting.

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Super exciting.

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But also, we've got to be realistic, right?

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Dreaming about the future is fun, but actually living it,

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that's a whole other thing.

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It is.

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And there are some big kind of serious questions we need to be asking.

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How do we make sure all this benefits everyone?

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Right, because it could very easily go the other way.

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Exactly.

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And what about jobs?

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Automation could cause a lot of disruption.

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And we can't forget about the potential for bias.

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Algorithms making decisions that impact people's lives,

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we have to be careful with that.

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Yeah, tons to think about.

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Because technology can be amazing, but it can also be misused.

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Absolutely.

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And that's why these conversations are so important.

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We can't just get caught up in the hype.

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We have to think about the consequences, the ethical side of all of it.

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Tesla's pushing the boundaries, but it's up to all of us

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to decide what we're comfortable with, where we draw the line.

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It's like they're saying, here's the future, ready or not.

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And it's our job to figure out, OK, so what now?

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Exactly.

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And maybe part of that is asking ourselves those bigger questions.

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Like, what do we even want our relationship with technology to be?

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Do we want to control it or have it control us?

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Deep stuff.

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But those are the conversations we need to be having

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if we want to create a future that actually works for everyone.

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Couldn't agree more.

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And hey, maybe in that future, owning a car really

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will be like owning a horse today.

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Right.

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A fun hobby for some, but not a necessity for everyone.

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It's a wild thought.

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It is.

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But hey, we've seen crazier things happen, right?

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That's for sure.

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Buckle up, everyone, because this ride is just getting started.