If future cars do not have drivers they are likely to make pedestrians nervous.
All of that means these future cars, like their hot-rod ancestors of the 1950s, are graded on style as much as speed.
And a couple of future cars, like the mid-sized Aura and the replacement for the current Ion, look wonderful, both inside and out.
It will be interesting to see how The Green Book does with such future cars as the plug-in hybrid Toyota Prius and the Fisker Karma.
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Expect future cars to help motorists garner maximum mileage by leveraging technology like the eco-tutoring systems found in many hybrids, wider use of tire-pressure, oil life and engine-tuning monitoring systems and more-sophisticated GPS guidance that can select less-congested routes.
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Count IBM in as one of the many companies looking to skyrocket the cost of our future cars, er, protect our lives by developing must-have active safety systems that are sure to become the standard fare in vehicles of the future.
The quiet future that electric cars could usher in, though, may have to be postponed.
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Or, the future may be cars powered by (now, very cheap and extraordinarily plentiful and really rather environmentally clean) natural gas.
Amid breathless talk about the future of electric cars, Ford Motor Co. figures hybrids, which still use gasoline, will make more sense for most drivers.
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Barbaroux is also the founder and president of French manufacturer Formulec, which has produced the EF01 prototype car that is the base model for future Formula E cars.
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The episode ends with a vision of a future with flying cars where a network executive (an age-defying Kenneth) happily bankrolls a show like "30 Rock" from Lemon's great-granddaughter.
On the other hand, at some future age when most cars drive themselves at safe and sound speeds, these throwbacks to what might be considered a golden age of motoring could well be highly valued for their sheer audacity.
Those who learn how to manage money during this time will learn to build the savings required to make a down payment on a future home, buy cars without the help of a lease or high-interest loan and eventually afford the joys that real financial freedom offers, such as frequent vacations or early retirement.
Will people own cars in the future, or will they just access them through car-sharing services or new models?
We are redefining the future of our super sports cars around the two main reasons to buy: design and performance.
No one doubts the extent of information-gathering and communication features that will be built into the networked cars of the future.
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The head of development for the program is convinced that driver-less cars are the future and that Volvo will be the first one there.
The cars of the future will have powerful panoptic systems to project telematic imagery across the windshield, audiophile sound systems and speech and gesture recognition.
If we will have driverless cars in the future, why are we spending time and money developing a car that a blind person can drive?
When you don t have to put food on the table for others, you can feed your need to drive the latest models and ponder the cars of the future.
Put most bluntly, there can be no future for the auto industry if the public schools in Detroit, Flint or Gary are not capable of educating a new generation of workers to design the cars of the future.
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If one can believe that we will have fully autonomous, driverless cars in the future, which many people do, then there is absolutely no reason why one should doubt the possibility of a car driven by the blind safely on public roads.
And I want every American to know that the path I'm laying out today is our best chance to make sure that the cars of the future are built where they've always been built -- in Detroit and across the Midwest -- to make America's auto industry in the 21st century what it was in the 20th century -- unsurpassed around the world.
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Even as the future has aged, these concept cars continue to fascinate, as do the dream cars conjured by Chrysler and Ford.
Let us continue investing in advanced battery technology and renewable fuels to power the cars and trucks of the future.
It just gives you better options for future financial decisions on big things like cars, a personal home loan or even investments.
You talk to some of the engineers who are working on the cars and trucks of the future and they say, you know, we're short-staffed already.
And the fact that the region will likely be producing the majority of the most low-mileage and low-emission cars certainly cannot hurt their future prospects.
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