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In the future, driving will be a hobby for those of us who like cars. In the way that steam locomotives, canal boats, and (to a large extent) horses are now hobbies. And then it will be great because the only people on the road will be people who are enjoying themselves. A lot of these people are simply going to work and probably hating it. And I don’t blame them. They should be in little balls that fly through the air, powered by anti-matter or anti-gravity or something like that. The business of getting around needs to be satisfied by something else and then cars can become something we love and enjoy.

I mean that woman there doesn’t really want to be in a Peugot 206 on a Thursday morning on the A3. Why would she? She either wants to be at home or at work. And she wants to go “swoosh” between the two. Hopefully pretty soon she’ll be able to do that.

I can’t wait. I hope it happens in my lifetime. Otherwise I will have missed a trick. I’ll have been born out of sync with a very important phase in the cars development. Too late for it to be a pioneering activity. Too early for it to have turned into an indulgence.

DAMN!