After a few weeks of planning, here I am in Los Angeles ready to start my road trip of the state’s most compelling innovators changing how we’ll live in the next decade. Thank you to everyone who submitted ideas, especially about cars, onions and manure. More on that last one next week.

Speaking of cars, here she is, the set of wheels that will take me around the state. It has some fancy National Geographic decals on it, which is probably the closest I’ll ever get to being a NASCAR driver. If you see me on the highway, give a wave. But keep your eyes on the road.

One note of disclosure. The car, you vehicle aficionados might notice, is a Jetta. And a