Future transportation modes
By gbolly54
@gbolly54 (661)
Nigeria
April 9, 2007 10:37am CST
A friend sent me an email on imaginations about what the future of transportation would be in the next few years. One of the imaginative possibilities was riding on an automotively mobilized cow on wheels! The funny idea struck me as crazy and unrealizable. Does anybody have an idea of the future face of transportation?
1 response
@pinokkio (352)
• Bahrain
9 Apr 07
Why would anyone put wheels on a cow? Wouldn't wheels on a horse be better?
I'm not sure what's going to happen in the future but I'm sure of one thing. Those "flying cars" that everybody was raving about before the year 2000. What was the deal with that? We already have those. They're called "Airplanes"! If it flies, then isn't it an airplane? Never did understand that one..
I'm not interested in the vehicles of the future. I'm more concerned about the traffic. Every day a million cars are bought and driven around the already crowded streets. Can you imagine what it will be like after 50 years? Just thinking about it scares me..
@gbolly54 (661)
• Nigeria
9 Apr 07
Your fear about traffic jam in 50 years' time is not misplaced at all. But there are solutions to all problems, actual or potential. When traffic immobility rendered life almost impossible in the '80s to '90s, the odd and even number system was designed such that vehicles with even and odd registration numbers, respectively would be allowed to ply the major roads on different days. It worked only for some time, though, as those who could afford it went ahead to buy extra vehicles so as to beat the odd and even number law. At the end of the day, the law was abandoned. We probably have to start thinking of multi-storey roads, in addition to multi-lane ones! It is also possible that most of us would be flying or commuting by train or something of mass dimension by then. Thank God I won't be around to witness it if our current life expectancy trend is not broken.
