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Though Florida is rarely thought of as a forward thinking state, when it comes to self-driving car technology Florida is actually turning into the next Silicon Valley. In the years since this legislation, Florida has built up a reputation as “the autonomous vehicle capital of North America” and there are even self-driving taxi services popping up in some neighborhoods, and one town has even trialed a self-driving school bus! But since only Florida has legalized fully autonomous cars with no drivers on board, no automobile manufacturers have been interested in bringing out any car models with true autonomous features that would let us summon our car from afar. There is a pretty long list of supported cars (but no camper vans) that can get some limited Tesla-like self driving capability via these upgrades, but even in a state like Florida where it might be potentially somewhat legal to enable summoning from afar – there are still a LOT of technical and legal hurdles to get over first.

The original boat owner’s name was Tony, so Y-not (the original spelling) is Tony backwards. The original boat logo wasn’t our style, and we wanted something less Tony-backwards and more Y-Not. The old cellular honeycomb salon shades were worn and stained, so when we saw Sanford Verticals exhibiting at a street festival and found out they would take a job on a boat, we jumped at having them redo our blinds. We did a bunch of research, and decided to go with a fully Garmin system because of Garmin’s reputation for having an easy to use user interface, and because Garmin had purchased Active Captain (our favorite way to scope out anchorages) and Navionics (our favorite charting apps)

And now, the final episode on our southbound cruise of the St. Johns River – the final push into Sanford

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