Teaching my kids never to drive

Until recently, Chris Urmson, was the head of the driverless car project at Alphabet's X. He famously said his goal was to ensure that his young son never needed a driver's license, and as a father who had plenty of close calls in a car during my dumb teenage years, I completely agree. Urmson's son was 11 when he said that, allowing a five year window for the technology to reach maturity. My own boys have more than a decade before they are old enough to apply for a driver's license, but I'm already working to plant in their young minds the notion that cars are meant to operate themselves, and that putting humans behind the wheel is wasteful at best, dangerous at worst. Over the last week, I've been entertaining them with the HotWheel AI racing set.