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...King leaps behind the wheel of his black custom-crafted Carlsson Mercedes. Since becoming head of state a year ago, he explains as he steers into traffic through the huge gate in the palace's high, ocher-colored rampart, he has gone on living the regular life he tried to live as Crown Prince. "People are not shocked at all when they see me driving my own car," he says. "I have always driven myself. I can't imagine not doing it. I haven't changed anything, except I moved into a bigger office...
...some military brass and a few aides who are waiting to receive him. The Mercedes is there on the tarmac too. Saying goodbye, he goes into the cockpit to thank the pilots for the safe trip and then bounds down the steps. Within seconds he's behind the wheel again and spinning into town...
...that today is any slouch: We already have onboard navigation systems and infrared night vision and in-car satellite links and antiskid brakes and other electronic Samaritans poised to take control when we screw up behind the wheel. Jaguar's adaptive cruise control, available today, tracks the speed and position of the car in the lane ahead and automatically adjusts the speed to keep a safe time interval...
...WHEELS GO Squat two-seat roadsters will lure the post-Yahoo generation. This concept car from GM, above, is based on new plastics that will make tomorrow's cars completely recyclable. Will they have a steering wheel or fly-by-wire joysticks...
High tech implies progress, while low tech feels outdated. A stone wheel, an arrowhead, a shuttle loom were once high tech; today they are museum pieces. Phonographs, at one time considered high tech, are now collectibles, as are 45s and LPs. (See, for example, the offerings on eBay.) High tech becomes low tech with longevity and familiarity and as old technologies are replaced...