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Looking back at the past as the past looks forward to us

23 March 2006
 

Those who attempt to predict future trends in transport can often get it so wrong as to be hilariously funny. For example, whatever happened to the nuclear-powered car, touted by at least one major car manufacturer as the way forward back in the 1950s? Or the car that could be converted into a personal flying machine so easily that the task could be accomplished "even by a woman"? What, indeed.

But sometimes, of course, those charged with predicting the future get it quite eerily...

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