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The Future of Transportation
Future Cars
Fuel efficient, zero emission vehicles will use high tech electronics to assist drivers in a wide variety of ways. Vehicles will communicate with each other, with the road and with traffic signals.
Autos and trucks of the future will use vision enhancement devices to help you navigate through bad weather and warn you of a possible collision with a pedestrian or animal. They will also let you know if you are getting drowsy or straying from your lane.
Cars of the future will be radically different than the automobiles of today, and so will the driving experience.
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
In the near future, hydrogen fuel cells will change our lives. These fuel cells will power our vehicles, homes and offices more efficiently and will be less harmful to the environment than traditional energy sources. Fuel cells using pure hydrogen do not emit any air pollutants or greenhouse gases.
Driverless Transportation
Mass transit in the future will be low cost, personalized and environmentally friendly. Here are some online articles I found interesting on the future of driverless transit.
Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
Automated Transportation with Laserguided Vehicles
Bringing Robot Transportation to Europe
The Driver-less Future of Transportation
Flying Cars
The FSC-1™ flying car can convert between car and airplane in 30 seconds.
The
Moller Skycar™ uses a patented system that redirects
thrust, enabling it to hover or to takeoff and land
vertically from almost any surface
Maglev Trains
Magnetic
Levitation Transport, or maglev, is a form of transportation that moves
vehicles via electro-magnetic force. Maglev trains can reach speeds
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Future Transportation Articles, Blogs and Web Sites
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| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Aerobus | Self-propelled vehicle |
| Alternative Energy Transportation Technology | Alternative energy technology news |
| CAFE | Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency |
| ET3 | Evacuated Tube Transport concept |
| Future Transportation Technologies | University of Washington |
| Global Intelligent Transportation System | Concept for unmanned ecological vehicles and ships. |
| Icon Aircraft | Sport aircraft |
| MyCopter | EU Project |
| SARTRE | Road trains |
| Shark Ride | Future transportation blog |
| SolarBullet | Solar bullet train |
| Space tourism | Future For All |
| sQuba | Amphibious Car |
| STU | String Rail |
| Swissmetro | Mag-lev train concept |
| Terraspan | Mag-lev train concept |
| The Future by Airbus | Concept videos of air travel in the year 2050 |
| Tubular Rail | Above ground rail concept |
| X Prize | Prizes that drive innovators to solve some of the greatest challenges facing the world today |
| Article | Sources |
|---|---|
| Future Transportation | Article by futureforall.org Image from lbl.gov |
| Maglev Trains | Article paraphrased from wikipedia.org Image of maglev train courtesy of Alex Needham |
| Flying Cars | Image of FSC-1 courtesy of LaBiche Aerospace Inc. Image of M400 Skycar courtesy of Moller International, USA |
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