The original call
Original year: 2014
2026 assessment
Scorecard verdict: Live / too early on the date
Live, but I was early on the timing. By 2017 you could not really pay for much from your dashboard. By 2026 you can — in-car payment is now built into vehicles from GM, Mercedes, Stellantis and others, fuel, parking, tolls and drive-thru orders settled straight from the dash. So the call was right; my “by 2017” was about five to seven years premature. A good reminder that I sometimes nail the “what” while being aggressive on the “when.”