dud future motoring predictions....
taranaki
03-05-2002, 02:25 AM
you have to wonder what these guys were thinking! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :D :D :D
In the 1941 book The Story of Everyday Things, author Arthur Train Jr. explained how a businessman would travel in 2000: "He will not be obliged to handle the controls by himself. He may well be able to doze or read, while, from a distant point, his car or plane will be held on its course by short-wave impulses."
"We must not be misled to our own detriment to assume that the untried machine can displace the proved and tried horse."
- John K. Herr, 1878-1955, major general, U.S. Army.
"Since the aircars of the future need to stick to the traffic lanes only when their drivers feel like it, the chief motoring offense at the turn of the century will not be speeding, but trespass…There are few spots that a skillful aircar driver could not reach, and the breakdown vans of the future are going to receive S.O.S. calls from families stranded in some very odd places."
- Arthur C. Clarke, on life by 2000 in Profiles of the Future, 1962.
"The modern gasoline-powered car will disappear, but not by 1984. Around the turn of the century, we will indeed run out of a few key things, like fuel…Atomic cars? Ridiculous - just like the gas - drive- engines in 1880…Hence, in 1984 or 2000 we will still be running around in cars - but not the type we now use."
- Richard N. Farmer, The Real World of 1984, 1973.
"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market."
- Business Week, 1979
"Private passenger vehicles will be barred from most city cores by 1986."
- The Futurist, 1967
"The first floor of future homes will be turned over to cars."
- A General Motors official to the Wall Street Journal, 1966.
"A road sign of the future is likely to read "No wheeled vehicles on this highway.' Cars without wheels will float on air, bringing about the passing of the wheel."
- scientist and author Arthur C. Clarke's 1975 vision of transportation in 2000.
From the book
Bad Predictions by Laura Lee
IF YOU DON'T KILL YOURSELF DRIVING LIKE THAT,I'LL DO IT FOR YOU!
from Taranaki's father,1981
:flipa: dad:silly2: :silly2:
In the 1941 book The Story of Everyday Things, author Arthur Train Jr. explained how a businessman would travel in 2000: "He will not be obliged to handle the controls by himself. He may well be able to doze or read, while, from a distant point, his car or plane will be held on its course by short-wave impulses."
"We must not be misled to our own detriment to assume that the untried machine can displace the proved and tried horse."
- John K. Herr, 1878-1955, major general, U.S. Army.
"Since the aircars of the future need to stick to the traffic lanes only when their drivers feel like it, the chief motoring offense at the turn of the century will not be speeding, but trespass…There are few spots that a skillful aircar driver could not reach, and the breakdown vans of the future are going to receive S.O.S. calls from families stranded in some very odd places."
- Arthur C. Clarke, on life by 2000 in Profiles of the Future, 1962.
"The modern gasoline-powered car will disappear, but not by 1984. Around the turn of the century, we will indeed run out of a few key things, like fuel…Atomic cars? Ridiculous - just like the gas - drive- engines in 1880…Hence, in 1984 or 2000 we will still be running around in cars - but not the type we now use."
- Richard N. Farmer, The Real World of 1984, 1973.
"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market."
- Business Week, 1979
"Private passenger vehicles will be barred from most city cores by 1986."
- The Futurist, 1967
"The first floor of future homes will be turned over to cars."
- A General Motors official to the Wall Street Journal, 1966.
"A road sign of the future is likely to read "No wheeled vehicles on this highway.' Cars without wheels will float on air, bringing about the passing of the wheel."
- scientist and author Arthur C. Clarke's 1975 vision of transportation in 2000.
From the book
Bad Predictions by Laura Lee
IF YOU DON'T KILL YOURSELF DRIVING LIKE THAT,I'LL DO IT FOR YOU!
from Taranaki's father,1981
:flipa: dad:silly2: :silly2:
primera man
03-05-2002, 03:20 AM
Originally posted by taranaki
IF YOU DON'T KILL YOURSELF DRIVING LIKE THAT,I'LL DO IT FOR YOU!
from Taranaki's father,1981
:flipa: dad:silly2: :silly2:
Shit....you got the same father as me :bloated: :bloated:
IF YOU DON'T KILL YOURSELF DRIVING LIKE THAT,I'LL DO IT FOR YOU!
from Taranaki's father,1981
:flipa: dad:silly2: :silly2:
Shit....you got the same father as me :bloated: :bloated:
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