Where Is My Flying Car?: A Memoir of Future Past
But predictions that self-driving “robotaxis” would be ubiquitous by 2020 proved overly optimistic. Autonomous vehicles (AVs), as self-driving cars are known in the industry, can do extraordinary things, such as navigating busy downtown streets and handling complex junctions with multiple traffic lights. But they seem to be stuck in perpetual testi
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It reveals a change of vision over the decades, from dreams of tomorrow to dreams of technologies that should already have been with us.
Avis Lang • Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
In 1939 motordom's work culminated in one of the most monumental works of promotional showmanship in the history of technology: the Futuramamodel depicting the motorized city of 1960, displayed in General Motors' "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the New York World's Fair. It was a motor age dream city, entirely dependent on automobiles
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Culture and Consumption II. In the essay titled “When Cars Could Fly,”
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
