Grandbabies, Autonomous Cars and Arkansas Bluegrass -
The milestone in life has come when ones children are parents. Two daughter's each new mothers in May in the span of just 3 weeks. COVID babies born in a secure hospital with virtual family support. An amazing new paradigm. Brave new world. After appropriate quarantine isolation, the opportunity to visit my new granddaughter Adeline, right in FW -albeit with masks and social distancing. But in order to visit grand-son Grady Hank it required going to Nashville Tennessee. The parental prerequisites for visiting was no airline flight. So a 10.5 hour drive it was! But what an opportunity to try out the semi-autonomous features of my Honda CRV. Lane-keeping and auto-speed handling made the trip SO much more relaxing and seemingly short. The driving-assist technology is only at a stage that allows for 16 seconds hands off at a time keeping the (for the most part) the appropriate distance, speed and lane on long mostly straight stretches of freeway. Still time enough to use