Less than 0.001% of humanity has ridden a car without pedals or a steering wheel
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-10-07
The author shares riding a fully autonomous vehicle with no pedals and no steering wheel, noting that less than 0.001% of Earth's population has ever experienced this. His takeaway: "the future is here but not equally distributed" — the tech is real but still out of reach for almost everyone.
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