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1956 GM Motorama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6keHpeYak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6keHpeYak It looks kind of (extremely) ridiculous now, but thin
by csours 10y ago
1956 GM Motorama: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6keHpeYak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6keHpeYak
It looks kind of (extremely) ridiculous now, but think about all the things that changed between then and now. The iPhone is ubiquitous now, but it only came out in 2007, and we really only got modern cellular internet after that.
I think that the Smartphone revolution had a huge impact on the way most people think, to the point where it is hard to remember what life was like before them.
The autonomous, decentralized nature of smartphones, along with the cloud for updates and backup is beyond game changing, and software designed before this REALLY shows its age.
DISCLAIMER: I work for GM, any opinions are solely my own, etc.
- PinguTS 10y agoI didn't know that. It shows for how long that is a vision and how long it took. Still, the vision is far away from happening. (But may be not an additional 60 years.)
- csours 10y agoThis may blow your mind: in the 1930s GM owned some aircraft manufacturing and investigated flying cars. Spoiler Alert: that never worked out, as you wind up with a crappy car AND a crappy airplane.
- jamiek88 10y agoWow. I love the retro looks at the future. They nearly always sheer mass of people and scalability wrong, imagine a human road traffic controller working with each car over radio! They applied how planes work to the road but still the whole get onto a seperate lane, follow the red line thing would work very well for interstate haulage. Thanks for posting that, very fun 8 min watch.
- dsp1234 10y agoBranding the special lane as the 'High Speed Safety Lane' is brilliant. Only autopilot/lane keeping/autobraking enabled cars allowed. Increase the speed limit since you know that all of the vehicles are able to prevent accidents in the majority of cases.
- sailfast 10y agoThank you for posting this. A brilliant slice of the past. The decision to make this one a musical... just spectacular haha.