He is the author of are we there yet . the american automobile past, present, and driverless. Its available for signing at the conclusion of the program. Please, without further ado, join me in welcoming him this evening. Thank you so much. Really generous and sweet introduction. Thank you so much. That was really lovely. Thank you, amanda. Really generous and sweet introduction. I think everybody for being i especially amanda told me that the smithsonian associate people have reminded me how engaged these audiences are. So i feel like i have to be up on my toes and really give you my a game to take that seriously. And to be a little intellectual, be a little heavy. Theres a lot of material in the book. Everything from teaching my daughter to drive to a freudian analysis. And a little bit of this theory of how one understands that. The reason i am doing that is to put us in the present moment where, as some of you may have heard, Driverless Cars are on the horizon. But at the end of th
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