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What the Hell Happened?!
No, I didn’t fall off the face of the Earth. Not yet. I do occupy a new UTM zone - for whatever that’s worth. You see, I moved to Detroit and, ohhhh, I got a JOB! Yeah! And, well, it’s funny how when you get a job the blog you started mostly for getting a job suddenly drops a few (dozen) notches down your priority list. I’ve been meaning to write this post since before I started nine months ago. Of course, everything happened so quickly and I became so wrapped up in preparing to move, moving, settling in,... Read more >>
I hope to make a career for myself in the self-driving car industry. On my first visit to New York City I became enthralled with public transit and how instrumental a comprehensive transit system can be as a public service. While I’m compelled by the relief to congestion and other benefits self-driving cars promise for such dense cities, I find the potential benefits to extremely low density cities like my home of Oklahoma City, where car ownership is all but a necessity, equally compelling. The poor and handicapped are forced to depend on an inefficient and unreliable transit system, and the sprawl renders a comprehensive system cost prohibitive. That’s where, in my imagination, self-driving cars come in...