The next innovation?

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I don't believe fully autonomous self-driving cars, as people tend to imagine them today, will ever happen.
It may evolve into a sort of public transportation along highly engineered "roads" - practically tracks. Not really individual cars. And not anytime soon. Coexistence of automatic and manually-driven cars on public roads is practically impossible.
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"autopilot" is already available for the civic via comma ai.
 

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This is an interesting question and I think a few of the above have hit the nail on the head. Near future (within the next 5-10 years or so, depending on 5g roll-out) will have networked cars that constantly talk to each other and if auto-pilot isn't standard a heads-up display will be, that says "hey, move over yonder", or "accident ahead, slow down". Once we get to the point of all cars being networked and essentially driverless, the cars that are driven by drivers (in old junky cars, ha!) are relegated to back roads, we'll be able to drive at like 1 million miles an hour. Once we are all ok, mentally, with not driving our cars I think we'll start trading windows for monitors so we can watch commercials during our commute.

On another kind of related note, on my Roku I have Pluto TV, which has a "This Old House" channel. I watch it a lot and it's fascinating how much changes over the course of 10 years or so. I just watched an episode last night where they talked about $100 LED can lights and how they were the newest tech and the greatest. I haven't shopped for can lights but I know you can almost steal an LED lightbulb nowadays, they are so cheap. I've also seen episodes where they install home theater setups and wires go all over etc. Times and technology changing is neat!
I always like the engineers and designers of the 50s vision of future cars especially self driving

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I always like the engineers and designers of the 50s vision of future cars especially self driving

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They're not even driving between the lines! :) Oh, the future, where you don't have to drive, so you can play Dominoes (mother effer).

I do wish our cars looked like that.
 

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VW is stopping production of gas powered vehicles after 2025/26 so something radical is going to happen in this decade.
 


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I am not against electric cars, but realistically, I can't see this happening in the next 10-15 years. Most countries do not have the infrastructure to charge that many electric cars.
It's not just infrastructure. Currently batteries are the major limiting factor in the production of electric vehicles...there just aren't enough of them. I recall an article explaining that Tesla would be producing a whole lot more cars even now, but they simply can't produce batteries quickly enough. I'll see if I can find it
 

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VW is stopping production of gas powered vehicles after 2025/26 so something radical is going to happen in this decade.
It didn't happen yet, but Volkswagen knows the future? Not likely. Their decision is based on pure politics and "vision", not any real science or engineering breakthroughs.

"The move originates from the management’s decision to take the Group’s responsibility for the share of global CO2 emissions emanating from its cars more seriously."

It seems like they made previously a big bet on diesel, so they have nothing to lose. Well, good luck VW. Let's see how this goes.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30350065/honda-vw-electric-cars-future/
 

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It didn't happen yet, but Volkswagen knows the future? Not likely. Their decision is based on pure politics and "vision", not any real science or engineering breakthroughs.

"The move originates from the management’s decision to take the Group’s responsibility for the share of global CO2 emissions emanating from its cars more seriously."

It seems like they made previously a big bet on diesel, so they have nothing to lose. Well, good luck VW. Let's see how this goes.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30350065/honda-vw-electric-cars-future/
sounds like a PR move after that whole emissions scandal they got busted for a few years back
 

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Aaah the hell with it all and let’s all go back to steam powered cars :headbang:
 


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True. I never saw a steam powered car up close until the 1997 Hershey car show in PA when a Stanley steamer came pulling in to the fair grounds the size and the sound of this machine was very impressive
 

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I see some vehicles now have 'Night Vision' (seen the VW commercial), seems like a good idea.
 

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Steam would be cool...

I also wonder what is going to happen with all the batteries, not to mention the resources used to make them, not to mention also that if one sets on fire you can't put it out, not to mention the infrastructure, as mentioned above, not to mention hanging out at the charging stations for 45 minutes on the good side to wait for your car to charge, not to mention you can't store a can of electricity in the bed of your truck so, if you need to you can drive further than 300 miles, not to mention those generators that keep a lot of people in power when the power goes out, not to mention... I'll be a Luddite on this one.
 

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Did you say 2035? How about flying cars? already invented. You can see one at the Boeing museum of flight. Patents are out there (see one below for example). That's the new frontier that Uber and aerospace industry is investing. What do you guys think?

Landing the moon was considered impossible at one point...



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