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Ah, it's amazing, isn't it, how much our relatives really trust us at the end of the day. You'd probably do as good or a better job as some of those fellas flying the, uh, you know, some of those planes. I mean, I guess you've heard about all the aviation mishaps in the United States lately. I mean, it seems like every other week there's one or two things that are happening. I mean, it's just absolutely crazy. It seems like it's sprung up overnight, you know, every other, whether it's ATC or, you know, some other, um, you know, the plane itself or the pilot or it just seems there's always an excuse, but, uh, it's, uh, it could definitely be a dangerous thing, you know, if you don't know what you're doing. And that's excellent, man. Very, very fascinating. I've, uh, flown numerous times over the years myself, not ever behind the controls of the vision problems, so I don't even drive a car. That's why I was thinking self-driving would be literally right up my alley, and I do trust the underlying technologies, even more so than a human driver in most cases. I mean, these light air systems can see about a mile away at 360 degrees around the vehicle simultaneously. There's no blind spots with these self-driving cars. As a matter of fact, one of the members on the net this morning told an interesting story where he was driving a long distance yesterday and, uh, fell asleep behind the wheel, and, uh, his wife was asleep in the passenger seat, and he fell asleep for, uh, upwards of what could have been two minutes. And, uh, the car maintained the lane and, uh, steered and kept the, uh, appropriate distance from the vehicle in front of it the whole time. He said he woke up and all the cars were different. That was around him. He said he just, like, kind of snapped awake, and all of a sudden all the vehicles were different. So he's not sure exactly how long he was out, but, uh, that adaptive cruise control, uh, which is available on a lot of vehicles now these days, uh, you know, gas and electric vehicles, uh, where it maintains the distance between you and the, uh, vehicle in front of you, and it will slow down and stop for traffic lights and, um, you know, keep you in the lane, all that stuff. Uh, just marvelous technology out there. I mean, that could have saved their lives yesterday.