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It's amazing to see these old videos. The roads were busy than I expected, I thought cars were incredibly expensive back then? (not that they aren't now). In 6

It's amazing to see these old videos. The roads were busy than I expected, I thought cars were incredibly expensive back then? (not that they aren't now). In 60 years time when we're all driving hover cars like the Jetsons imagine how much footage they'll have of us. Dashcams everywhere

inglor_cz 3y ago
Cars were already mass-produced 60 years ago and, compared to contemporary cars, rather simple. (No electronics, no airbags etc.) So they couldn't have been that expensive. Also, parking was mostly free, no congestion duties when driving into London... IDK if there were taxes on gasoline and how high.
- ljlolel 3y ago
  And before the ‘70’s oil embargo
- Tade0 3y ago
  Depends on the country. In Italy there's still to this day a tax on gasoline originally imposed to finance the Italo-Ethiopian war in 1935. Naturally that wasn't even the last tax of this sort, the latest addition being from 2012.
kcplate 3y ago
> In 60 years time when we're all driving hover cars… Don’t get your hopes up. In the seventies we were promised personal jet packs by now.
SilverBirch 3y ago
About 5 million cars in 1960s vs over 30 million now. But that journey done today would be practically all on the M4, a 3 lane uninterrupted motorway, so capacity has massively increased.