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title: "Video: Why Autonomous Vehicle Technology is a Lot Like Teenage Sex!"
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# Video: Why Autonomous Vehicle Technology is a Lot Like Teenage Sex!

(Yes, it’s safe for work!”)

From a recent keynote for Volvo / Mack Trucks North America leadership meeting.

A dinner talk, so you have to build some tremendous fun into it. I had the crowd in stitches! But the clip makes a point — autonomous technology is coming quickly, but we’ll go through the Gartner Hypecycle before we get there….

[![](/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/maxresdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/embed/X5R9eTAJWnc)

So here we go: why is autonomous vehicle technology a lot like teenage sex?

- no one is sure what it is, but they hear that its great

- everyone thinks that everyone else is doing it

- those who say they are doing it are probably lying

- the few who are doing it aren’t doing it very well

- everyone hopes it will be great when they finally do it

- once they start doing it, they’ll discover that it is going to take a

- while to figure out how to get really good at it

- and they’ll realize that they’ll have to try to discover a whole bunch of new methods of doing it to really figure it all out