I don’t trust the AI cars, but am Much more worried about the 70% of real people I see on their phone while driving dangerously & impatiently. Just so they can get to wherever they are going a little faster, much more dangerously, & then play with their phone aimlessly when they get there.

It’s hard to even drive in parking lots these days without hitting a phone zombie, literally standing in the middle of the road staring at the screen. Or walking in the street without even looking up. Then they Walk through the grocery store glued to the screen, incapable of paying attention to any real people around them.

Then at the gym, I wait for racks being used by people who can’t even lift weights without getting on their phone for 5 minutes between sets. They spend two hours at the gym, 10 minutes spent doing actual exercise, & 110 minutes spent nose deep in their phone, sitting on equipment someone else could use.

The real kicker to this whole rant, is 95% of all this phone time is spent on absolutely meaningless & trivial things, that add very little value to a persons life, & serve to steal attention & free choice from these poor phone addicted people.

This was of course written on my phone, but in the privacy of my home. I make a point to not use my phone in public unless absolutely necessary. & even then I will sit down out of the way to use it for a moment.

If you see me blindly walking around glued to my phone, feel free to shoulder check me, or hit me with your car to teach me a lesson. But you won’t see me in that spot 😉