Vision of the Automotive Future from 1958 - Neatorama

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This is a great little video, an excerpt from Disney's "Magic Highway USA", showing what people from the late '50s thought would be the future of transportation.

It's really neat to see how far we have come, and how far we haven't. Some of the predictions have come to some manner of fruition, such as real-time traffic stats, navigation, and autodriving vehicles. While some are still pretty far out and "Far Out!" like atomic-powered and solar-powered cars.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by mjgolli.

hard to believe its been 51 years and they got part of it right

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8-sided die as freeway sign? WANT.

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I should really install one of those new fangled punch card GPS systems into my car.

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Nuclear drill was kind of hilarious.

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Interesting prediction about the urban sprawl with the advent of the highway and the interstate system.

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"And in place af a back up mirror, a TELEVISION SCREEN!"

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It seems like there's a whole lot fewer people in the world of tomorrow.

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I actually learned something..........

Weird. O_o

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All predicted while the gas was at 2 cents a gallon :(

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Man, remember life before we had air-conditioned tube highways? How did people live back then?

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Could have used a cameo from Elroy. Otherwise, I found it quite interesting.

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Oh, 50s. Nobody saw gender equality coming.

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"Father will enter the information" Now, ladies, this techno-talk is too much for your pretty little heads. Why not go and make us men some martinis while we have man talk. Go on, scoot!

I love 1950's predictions!

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