OT: 30 years from now..., Is Right Now the Good Old Days? Options

[Ferg]

I was born in 75, and from a early age, I developed a huge love affair with the auto... Growing up at my Dad's car dealership didn't help. In high school I always felt I missed the Golden Age of the Auto. Which I always felt was 65-72ish. The cars were faster, more affordable.

Well on a long run I gave this some some thought. And realized that right now, cars have never been faster. Affordable is another debate, but when the average new sedan could outrun a muscle car of 30 years ago, well I think we have it pretty good.

So my question is, Where do you guys think we will be in terms of car performance 30 years from now? To clarify, right now a new Z06 Vette will do 0-60 in 3.7 and the quarter in 11.7! Will a Taurus be doing that 30 years from now?

Ferg

[Joe Bob]

In 30 years I will be 78...I just hope I can think, pee and poop....

[type11969]

QUOTE (SEEMORE BUTZ @ Aug 30 2005, 05:58 PM)

In 30 years I will be 78...I just hope I can think, pee and poop....

that is the funniest thing I have heard (read) all day


and I agree with your wishes when I turn 78 as well.

[SLITS]

QUOTE (SEEMORE BUTZ @ Aug 30 2005, 06:58 PM)

In 30 years I will be 78...I just hope I can think,

You don't do that now. Why do you think you would improve in 30 years?

[redshift]

I just hope mike can still wipe when I am 78, because I refuse. (to wipe myself)


M

[Joe Bob]

Sorry Ferg..... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/screwy.gif)

Can't control the peanut gallery.....

[Demick]

Yes, I think we will look back and see these as the good old days as far as driving is concerned. I think that the future holds more and more traffic congestion. Toll roads everywhere you go. And traffic cameras that take pictures and send you a ticket whenever you exceed the speed limit.

[SLITS]

Born in '45...30 years I'll be through smelling from rotting...they'll move my bones via a transporter beam and internal combustion will only be a memory of "Good Ol' Times".






Happy Mikey?

[Joe Bob]

Nope....answer yer freaking email about the pre 75 VW..... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/flipa.gif)

[redshift]

QUOTE (SEEMORE BUTZ @ Aug 30 2005, 10:57 PM)

Sorry Ferg..... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/screwy.gif) Can't control the peanut gallery.....

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)

Already? It's not even been a 'solid' hour..

Try Depends.

The glory days of cars was ova longago.


M

[airsix]

We will all be driving electic cars that get their power from an organic battery that you power with household refuse. They will be very similar to French and Eastern-European cars of the late '60s and early '70s, except they will smell like coffee grounds and bad cabbage. They will have 40hp per tonne and do 0-50 in 13 seconds (they won't do 0-60 becase they won't go 60). They will be the size of a new Beetle but weigh 5,000lb due to DOT mandated anti-Darwin equipment. Expect around .6 on the skidpad. Hot-rodding your ride will primarily focus on how to get the most from your battery (ie should you use grape pulp or lemon rinds for best amp-hour performace).

-Ben M.

[Sammy]

I figure that in 30 years the concept of a personal transportation device (car) will be considered anti-social and wasteful. There wil lbe examples in electronic museums but will be used to show the sins of the past, not to be desired or appreciated.

Transportation of people will be handled en mass by the corporation they belong to, as well as housing, food, and medical expenses.
In fact all living expenses will be covered by the employer. Instead of signing on for a paycheck, we will be signing on for a pre-determined standard of living. Reproduction of our species will have to be pre-approved by HR and that decision will be based on the employee's productivity and value to the corporation.
Government will not be by election but by appointments of corporate representatives.

There won't be much need to travel except to go from the housing dormatory to the office or workplace, which will prolly be in the same building.

Maybe I read too much Azimov and Heinlein when I was younger. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

[DrifterJay]

you know if it makes any of you oldtimers feel any better...in 30 years I will be only 50.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

[skline]

Sounds like an episode from Logan's Run or some other Sci Fi. I gave up trying to predict the future, live for the moment and enjoy life while you can.

[Sammy]

Here's something dark and off the wall that I find very scary:
the knowledge (technology, understanding of physics, etc) of the human race is doubling exponetially. I read about this recently and didn't memorize the exact figures but it was something like this:
In the early years before recorded history it took eons for human's understanding of the world to double.
2000 years ago it took 1000 about years to double, then after the dark ages it started doubling every few centuries, and it kept speeding up.
Now it is doubling every 10 years or so and it isn't slowing down.
Problem is, our collective wisdom isn't keeping pace with our knowledge.
The way I see it we are already too smart for our own good and it's gonna keep going.
How much more can we actually learn before that knowledge leads to our own destruction? Can we as a race actually learn enough to be able to transform into something other than the physical beings we are? Pure energy instead of flesh and blood?
Armageddon! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

I need to double up on the foil in my hat.

[SLITS]

Oooooooooooohhhhhhhmmmmmm......Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhmmmmm......Oooooooohhhhhhhhmmmmmm........become one with the universal flow my children......Oooooooooohhhhhhmmmmmm :severepainsmileyfromlotus postion:

[morph]

QUOTE (skline @ Aug 31 2005, 06:44 AM)

Sounds like an episode from Logan's Run or some other Sci Fi. I gave up trying to predict the future, live for the moment and enjoy life while you can.

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today is yesterdays tomorow,Plan for the future,live for the now,(i was born in the 60s (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/cool_shades.gif) )and 30 years from now ill be 68
james

[TravisNeff]

To answer the initial question, yes I think right now is the golden age of cars again. There have been a few of them already. Pre WW2 cars, the war stopped that. I think the 50's through the very early 70's which the oil embargo stopped. And now we are here again, cars with stoopid power, big tanky SUV's with horrible mileage some stlyish to own (hummer, cadillac etc.). I think the recent trend in rising gas prices will most likely change all of this once again.

[tdgray]

QUOTE (Travis Neff @ Aug 31 2005, 11:17 AM)

To answer the initial question, yes I think right now is the golden age of cars again.  There have been a few of them already. Pre WW2 cars, the war stopped that.  I think the 50's through the very early 70's which the oil embargo stopped.  And now we are here again, cars with stoopid power, big tanky SUV's with horrible mileage some stlyish to own (hummer, cadillac etc.).  I think the recent trend in rising gas prices will most likely change all of this once again.

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It's all cyclical. Remember "Necessity is the mother of invention"

Or maybe that was Lee Iaccoca (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/huh.gif)

[Lou W]

QUOTE

tdgray Posted on Aug 31 2005, 09:56 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUOTE (Travis Neff @ Aug 31 2005, 11:17 AM) To answer the initial question, yes I think right now is the golden age of cars again.  There have been a few of them already. Pre WW2 cars, the war stopped that.  I think the 50's through the very early 70's which the oil embargo stopped.  And now we are here again, cars with stoopid power, big tanky SUV's with horrible mileage some stlyish to own (hummer, cadillac etc.).  I think the recent trend in rising gas prices will most likely change all of this once again.   It's all cyclical. Remember "Necessity is the mother of invention" Or maybe that was Lee Iaccoca

I think it was Lee Iaccoca and P Diddy (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)