Is the automobile doomed?

[Del Arroyo]

Mass transit in the US is nice. Mass transit in Mexico sucks.

You know how if you completely remove the muffler from an automobile it improves the performance? And how if you strip the chassis down so there's no sound-buffereing but plenty of air to cool the engine down that helps too? Now you've got three chances to guess what happens in a de-facto unregulated environment such as Mexico.

Oh, how nice it must be to not have known the sound of a massive, naked diesel engine accelerating 5 inches from your eardrum....

DA

[bmolsson]

The car will have to change form. The horse was replaced by the car more or less over night, but I don't think that will be the case with the car. What I think will happen short term is that petrol will be replaced by an alternative fuel like ethanol. It's similar so the infrastructure and current technology can be used.
A note on mass transit. It's actually better to use a good mass transit than a personal car. In cities with good and functional mass transit I rather use that than rent a car to my self. Mass transit is a must in large dense cities and individuals can expect to have a choice.

[Mikeus Caesar]

I reckon that eventually something real bad will happen to the US, that will make the country fall apart into lots of little seperate countries, or something similar, which will lead to the fall of the Automobile and the rise of Planes and Zeppelins! It'll be just like crimson skies. It'll be great!



^ New York!



^ The face of a future North America!

[Viking]

My problem with them is what happens when theres an accident. What of those on the ground ?

There`ll be less accidents when you got the whole atmosphere as a highway, don`t you think? Perhaps they could have installed an auto-destruction device in every car that turns the car into powder once the driver\passengers have shot themselves out after an accident. If they don`t, they`re gonna die anyway.