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Saturday, March 14, 2009 

What is the Future of Transportation?

After all the hybrids, electrics, flex fuels, and alternative fueled vehicles have well passed their debut, what will the future of transportation really be? Right now researchers and engineers are no longer working on alternative fuels and electric models. They have already been created, it is just finding cheap enough materials to make them out of that the general public can afford to buy them. Solar cars are already on the market as a super expensive car as well, and soon we will see many solar cars as well as cars that you can plug into your garage outlet at night and charge up for the next day.

Corn crops are popping up all over the country to provide for rich environmentally friendly fuel alternatives, and emissions are being bumped to even worse curbs for older vehicles. After all that is said and done, what's next? The movies of yesterday show us that in 11 years we should have hover cars, and other vehicles that are not only able to drive, but leave the roads behind and fly.

Is it really possible that we are that close to the future that fantasy writers have set forth for us? Truth be told, we are not that far from it. Even within the last 20 years, there have already been several prototype models created from small time inventors. Perfecting the work is all that is really needed.

In the mean time, several vehicle manufactures are already beyond the alternative fuel crisis and are working on faster, sleeker, even more fuel efficient vehicles. Cars that look like the next phantom race car that can get 300 mpg and be solar powered, plus carry a battery to run off electricity for several hundred miles. With in the next 5 years, it is estimated that most of the cars between the years of 1981 and 2004 will be phased out. This is because none of those models will pass the emissions testing that will be required once hybrids and other alternative fueled cars are released more publicly. The only vehicles that will mostly likely stand the test of time will be classics before 1978, and truth be told, only to those who can afford the gas.

The price of gasoline will do nothing but go up as the world continues to wear out the oil resources, which means that any oil left over will not be cheap. Even many people who wish to keep their classic will be forced to give them up or convert them to run on hydrogen or other alternative sources.

From a mechanics point of view, the future of transportation is only limited by the imagination. We could see flying cars next year if someone gets the gumption to finish working out the bugs.

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Casey Martin
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