p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"January 2022. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"I heard the squeal of tires and the roar of engines behind me. I was trapped in an alleyway between the grille of a 2021 Ford F-250 and the brick wall of a store. I glanced into the windshield of the truck only to see emptiness. Ever since ford implemented these new self driving cars I knew it would lead to a change, but I never thought this would happen./span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"6 months earlier. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It was a proud day for the automotive industry the first artificially intelligent car line was being revealed by Volvo. These cars would not only be able to drive themselves but if they did everything Volvo claimed they would revolutionize road safety. I was on my way to see the unveiling of the car at the factory today. As a reporter for the NY Times it was my responsibility to keep the readers informed on groundbreaking science, and this was the definition of that./span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" When I arrived I was quickly directed to the press area where I setup my camera. I already had a headline in mind, "Driving the World into a New Age."/span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" If only I had known how true that would be./span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"2022. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The truck began accelerating down the alleyway towards me kicking up dust and paper in its wake. I had to think fast if I wanted to survive this encounter intact. I began scanning the walls looking for… Aha! A fire escape if I could reach that I would be able to climb onto the roof and be saved./span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The truck's tires squealed as it grew closer to me. I knew I had one chance to reach the ladder; but it would require that I jump first onto the hood of the truck. I waited until just the right moment and then jumped./span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"6 months earlier. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"It was a proud day for the automotive industry the first artificially intelligent car line was being revealed by Volvo. These cars would not only be able to drive themselves but if they did everything Volvo claimed they would revolutionize road safety. I was on my way to see the unveiling of the car at the factory today. As a reporter for the NY Times it was my responsibility to keep the readers informed on groundbreaking science, and this was the definition of that./span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" When I arrived I was quickly directed to the press area where I setup my camera. I already had a headline in mind, "Driving the World into a New Age."/span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" If only I had known how true that would be./span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic;"2022. /spanspan style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The truck began accelerating down the alleyway towards me kicking up dust and paper in its wake. I had to think fast if I wanted to survive this encounter intact. I began scanning the walls looking for… Aha! A fire escape if I could reach that I would be able to climb onto the roof and be saved./span/p
p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; line-height: 2;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"The truck's tires squealed as it grew closer to me. I knew I had one chance to reach the ladder; but it would require that I jump first onto the hood of the truck. I waited until just the right moment and then jumped./span/p