Designers and engineers are always coming up with new ideas that could represent the future of cars, personal transportation, and anything of that ilk. It has been this way throughout history and it’ll continue to be this way until the sun explodes and melts Earth like an ice cream cone in front of a blowtorch.
The real fun is looking back in history to see what stuff prognosticators were telling the masses was “right around the corner”. From flying cars to nuclear powered airplanes, trucks, and tanks, the sky was always seemingly the limit. While those predictions were pretty much insane, there’s lots of stuff that was talked about 50-60 years ago that is coming to fruition with cars now capable of parallel parking themselves, keeping you in your lane by themselves, and even applying the brakes to avoid a crash themselves, the idea of an “thinking” car is here.
Over the decades there have been hundreds of magazine stories about what would be happening in the year 2000, what we would be driving, flying, or piloting around. Since we’re about 20 years past that, we want to know which ones you wished came true and which ones you are happy that they did not.
BangShift Question Of The Day: What Automotive Vision Of The Future That Never Came To Be Are You Happiest Or Saddest About?
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Driver-less cars have been predicted for who knows how many decades. I know they are basically here but the auto industry has slowed down their hurry for autonomy in favor of spending their R&D dollars in electric transport. Autonomous vehicles are coming soon, very soon, and for many people I believe they make very good sense..I am not ready to give up the steering wheel though..
Fuel cell cars , all the manufacturers allmost had it ,, all have all switched to self driving death mobiles……yes I’m bitter. (Sorry about kicking a bees nest moderators)
Wish the mass production mid engine era promised with the original Mustang had come to pass.
Could’ve been cool.
The paltry American attempts weren’t very satisfying.
Yeah, I know, the next Corvette.
Sigh.
Turbine powered cars. Nothing would be cooler than to fire up a jet engine and cruise down the freeway with the whine of a jet engine in my ears. No stereo needed.
I’m glad some of the dystopian predictions of massive gas shortages and everyone driving Geo Metro like cars (or even more spartan and tiny things!) didn’t come to pass.
Some great styling never showed up. Instead we got the crap we call an average automobile today.
without a doubt, the biggest disapointment to me
was the only 1 or 2 made pontiac banshee. not the ghetto 80’s
one, the xp-833…….imagine that with a 455/4spd…….
The rise of a Chevy-destroying virus…..