About Future Perfect

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👋 Hi, I’m Marc Hoag.

You probably know me from my podcast, Autonomous Cars with Marc Hoag. Launched in 2018, I grew the podcast to 199 episodes in about 4 years and managed to land the #1 organic result on Google for "autonomous cars podcasts."

As a California-licensed attorney, former venture-backed tech founder, and UCLA graduate, I currently sit on the advisory board for a California-based teleops startup. I most recently I co-founded an autonomous vehicle consultancy with several academics in Europe; I'm authoring a book and Udemy course on ChatGPT; and I'm also testing a solo law practice around AI, AV, and other next-gen tech.

Future Perfect was originally launched on Substack in October 2022 and focused on climate change, clean energy, and autonomous/electric vehicles. I grew this original iteration of Future Perfect, published every weekday, to 44 issues before going on hiatus at the end of December.

In May 2023 (on "May the 4th," naturally!) I migrated Future Perfect to its new home on Beehiiv. And because of the meteoric impact of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other AI tech all around us, I decided to relaunch a refocused version of Future Perfect now spanning AI, climate change, and AVs/EVs.

My hope is that if you're a scientist, engineer, founder, academic, student, activist, lobbyist, politician, or are otherwise interested or involved in these interrelated fields, then this daily newsletter will make it easier for you to stay on top everything you need to know.

I hope that you'll subscribe and help me grow this newsletter.

Thanks very much. 🙏