Aero'sFuture: Future Cars
From Future
YEAR POSTED: 2009
The future of the world will undoubtedly contain upgraded version of all transportation technology currently used and available plus some that are highly inconvenient and nonexistent. Such technologies will come with future varieties of cars, more aerodynamic trucks, faster trains, all around better air travel, and eventually, teleportation. These technologies will bring people from all parts of the world much closer together, a key factor in economic growth and the future of humanity's success.
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[edit] Cars
Currently, as of the year 1997, the fastest moving land vehicle exceeded the sound barrier on the Bonneville Salt Flats. The jet-propelled British-designed automobile obtained an astonishing and extraordinary velocity of 763 miles per hour, barely two miles per hour beyond the sound barrier. This speed demon was known as ThrustSSC, and it has a new, faster successor.
By the early 2010s, BloodhoundSSC could very well raise the land speed record to, hopefully, over one thousand miles per hour. It is a second-generation project built by the same team of people that fabricated Thrust SSC and will try to obtain their speedy goal on the same salt flat as its predecessor.
[edit] 2010
As fossil fuels become increasingly expensive, along with the complete realization (by scientists) that they ruin the atmosphere and cause global warming to spin out of control, more and more vehicular manufacturers turn towards alternative fuel sources for cars. Most of them will divert their efforts into hybrid (petroleum and electric) and hydrogen-powered vehicles. Although they are technically alternatives to fossil fuels, they are still primitive choices seeing as current range for electrical vehicles is only two hundred or so miles.
[edit] 2025
What little fossil fuels humanity contains and has in storage is tremendously and almost breathtakingly elevated. As gasoline prices near ten dollars per gallon, humanity falls into paranoia and panic. Those imprisoned with the primitive petroleum-fueled vehicles begin noticing that they can not afford their needed gasoline as they form mile-long lines at almost all gas stations. Many car manufacturers have turned to full-electric and hyrdogen-powered vehicles due to the fact that the typical range for an electric car is nearly six hundred miles on one charge and that it only requires two to three hours to fully charge.
In a stroke of efficiency, the average speed limit for all freeways of the United States is nearly eighty-five miles per hour with the high ends reaching up to ninety-five miles per hour. This a spectacular twenty to thirty miles per hour jump from today. The estimated land speed record will exceed nearly twelve hundred miles per hour, just three hundred miles per hours short of twice the speed of sound.
[edit] 2050
Now that the world's fossil fuels have been entirely depleted, no hybrids exist and humanity has accordingly turned to a plethora of alternative vehicle energy. Full electric cars now run for hundreds of miles on one charge, hydrogen fueled cars have fuel cells lining the underbelly of the vehicle allowing any arrangment of luxurious seating, and solar powered vehicles have significantly increased in demand since 2025 now that manufacterurs have discovered an energy-efficient way to cool the vehicle while maintaining its aesthetics will solar panels.
Many varieties of the car will be manufactured in the year 2050. These include fully or semi-automated driverless vehicles (a law passed in 2032), amphibious cars, and even flying cars (in which many feasible prototypes have been designed. The most expensive and new automobile design would be the flying car, manufactered only by a select few exotic car companies in Europe.
2010's retro and semi-smooth cars are a thing of the past as new, even more aerodynamic, ultramodern vehicles replace them. Customizeable appearences in all cars is a mandate and highly common. Any color tinted windows may be used with shimmering, duotone paint jobs (on tremendously exotic foreign cars).
The average speed limit of an American highway has been risen to nearly 120 miles per hour, some reaching as high as 135 miles per hour. As luxury, aesthetics, power, speed, and energy-efficiency increase in quality, so will the average price of a car; however, not too much due to the easy manufactering techniques used by the vehicle industries. The average price of a used family sedan will reach fifteen thousand dollars while the price of a brand new top-of-the-line exotic will reach upwards of $500,000 to $600,000, leaving a new, everyday car at an average of $45,000.
[edit] Trucks
Throughout the entirety of the twenty-first century, truck materials will become lighter and lighter and the trucks themselves will gradually receive aerodynamic improvements. The semi-truck's dual windshield will most likely converge into one large glass section as the truck becomes more maneuverable. Higher saftety features will also be mandatory for trucks of the early to late twenty-first century.
