Today’s Solutions: July 17, 2025

The future is nearly here. Uber has self-driving cars in Pittsburgh, and maybe San Francisco. Google has new patents. One way or another, we’re getting truly autonomous vehicles, and soon. How big a deal is this? Huge. It’s up there with the advent of the Internet, railroads in the 1800s, and probably advanced medicine, the microchip, and television. It’s the most disruptive technology of our children’s time. I’ll leave it to naysayers and Luddites to…

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