I think you are watching to much Sci-Fi!
BTW, I have already driven a MrLaren F1, Ferrari F50, Lotus, Jag XJ220 and
a few other super cars....oh of course they were virtual cars on my
favorite game (Need For Speed 2).
Cheers,
KMR
> We also must realize that the days of the automobile as transportation
are
> numbered. The horse was as commonplace a century ago as as the car is
> today. By the mid teens, other than on the farm, horses became the toys
of
> the rich and rides at the state fair. The future of transportation seems
to
> be a combination of telecommuting and some sort of public transport. As
> the suburbs populate and grow into each other, as they have in LA and
more
> recently in my native San Francisco Bay Area, the businesses that
develope
> there (like Silicon Valley in Santa Clara/San Jose) will draw employees
> closer to the new business centers. Sure people will have to get together
> for meetings once or twice a week and there still will be skeleton crew
on
> premesis to mind the store but this wont require two-thirds of the
> population of Los Angeles to get into Honda Civics and Ford Explorers and
> drive fourty-five minutes across town to sit in a cubicle to be brow
beaten
> by managers and supervisors. In the future, a good supervisor will be the
> person who can effectively brow beat by email! (you can tell who is the
> free lancer is here!)
>
> The media message that people get today is that cars are disposable
> appliances that are of so little value that they are blown up and crashed
> for no appearant reason. While a necessary evil to get to school and the
> mall, they are also dangerous, expensive to own and are ruining our air
and
> water. If we could see what we love through the eyes of the people who
will
> eventually vote our hobby off the streets and into museums, we would see
> ourselves viewed as Disney's Mr. Toad or Mr. Magoo in their antique
tourers
> or Jack Benny and Rochester in the mythical Maxwell. Sure we can, and
> should, lobby the government and fight the system and buy ourselves more
> time, but we can't fight the tide and we can't fight progress. These very
> computors that have made it so easy for hobbiests to communicate and
> increase interest in what we value will ultimately become the angle of
> death of the same. When I became an automotive journalist, I gave up
> building and collecting and now spend most of my time talking and writing
> about cars.
>
> Someday, all of us will be driving virtual cars and taking the light rail
> to two or three big local events each year to see the collections of the
> rich or government funded collections. While we might have hidden away an
> old MG in the basement, we wouldn't dare drive it because if caught, it
> would be impounded and destroyed. LOOK AT THE LAWS THAT ARE BEING PUT
INTO
> PLACE TODAY! In some communities you are not allowed to have more than
> three running and registered cars on your property, and if turned in by a
> nosey, Nazi, neighbor; your car can be legaly "abated" (stolen and
removed)
> and sold for scrap. Sure we can fight these draconian laws but good luck
> trying to change the mass mentality that creates them.
>
> I know this sounds bleak, but greybeards like me probably will be too old
> to care as this "new order" actually comes into being. We might even
> welcome a relaxing train ride in a retro '30s deco lounge train or the
"Old
> West" railroad cars that will be offered as transportation companies and
> amusement parks merge to keep our media overstimulated minds from going
> into screensaver mode on a long boring train ride. Young enthusiasts will
> be able to bolt a Le Carra steering wheel to their Atari auto simulator,
> turn on the turbo electric wind fan option and slip in the MGTD CD ROM
and
> go for a ride in the hills in the comfort of their media rooms. (Hey!
Let's
> build some of this shit and get rich!)
>
> See you on the Funway! - Rick Feibusch - Venice, CA
>
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