The Car of the Future

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Have a test drive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAqPMJFaEdY

ruveyn

Very, very funny...

I tried not to laugh, but I did anyway - it really IS funny! I'll still be laughing as I drive to work this morning in my 45 mpg Prius

Aww. Thank you so much. That made my day!

45MPG, my last car could do more than that and it wasn't diesel and it was 15 years old

That's dumb. Cars don't have a future, not even tiny Fiats, Trabants, or small electric ones. The car of the future is a train.

Funny enough.

the car of the future is your own personal pod that can drive itself

How will you get from your house to the train station or back in a howling blizzard?

ruveyn

well the science fiction answer to that question would be that it could levitate using super conductors (I think that is what they are called)

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Trains are the most efficient form of mass transport but they are not 'greener' than a personal vehicle with 40+ mpg.

The amount of electricity or fuel required by a train is much higher (and causes more pollution) than if all its passengers used a personal vehicle.

If memory serves me right, I think that it was said that only if the train system ran on 100% nuclear power (aka using electricity from a nuclear power station) would it be greener.

There is more to green transportation than the efficiency level of the vehicle. You also need to take into account all of the maintenance that asphalt roads require. They need to be resurfaced every couple years, with a petroleum based product, using trucks that are run on fossil fuels.

How do you get from your house to the station? Bicycle or on foot. Part of the problem we have today is that most people's houses were built with cars in mind, so they are far from access to any public transportation. The future will bring a change in housing arrangements as well as transportation. We wouldn't need as much transportation if things were designed better. Do you really need a two ton fossil fueled product worth more than $10,000 for just those few times when there is bad weather?