Autonomous Driving
Your driver will not live in the car anymore. It will live in your pocket. Like R2-D2 docking into a fighter jet, your personal driving AI will ride with you and plug into any Uber, Waymo or RoboTaxi with an NFC tap.
We assume clicking on pictures of stoplights was just a security measure to keep bots out of our accounts. In reality Google was crowdsourcing millions of hours of free human labor to build the most advanced autonomous driving network on earth.
We assume Google is just a search engine desperately trying to defend its aging advertising monopoly. The reality is they are aggressively pivoting their capital to monetize a decade of dormant physical moonshots.
Technology
We assume the future of autonomous vehicles is a luxury transportation service competing on premium pricing. In reality, the impending robotaxi price war will force operators to offer free rides subsidized entirely by targeted digital advertising.
Technology
We assume legacy insurance companies are terrified of autonomous vehicles destroying their lucrative business models. In reality, these financial behemoths will aggressively lobby for full automation to completely eliminate the unpredictable variable of human biological error.
Artificial Intelligence
We are obsessing over the technology. Parents are obsessing over the peace of mind. That is the premium that scales the industry. Inspiration: Reading The Anxious Generation and realizing that for a parent, the “killer app” isn’t speed; it’s the ability to track the taxi. Waymo is no