Three weeks later, Serena is getting better at slowing to a stop sign without a helmet, but she still has a problem staying in the middle of a traffic lane when cars are approaching head on.

You sweat and you toil to buy the big house with the picket fence and the three-car garage because you believe that’s what success should look like.

As a technologist, I find it helpful to understand the emergence of the fabled self-driving car as a convergence of three trends: the Internet of Things, Big Data and Real-Time Technology.