Why the Cars of 2050 Might Disappoint You

The age of electric vehicles (EVs) has arrived. The last person who would drive a car with an internal combustion engine might have been born by now.

If the Carsurance infographic predicts the future with great accuracy, vehicles may stop running on fossil fuels in the next decades. Traffic-related accidents will to go down with the advent of autonomous driving technology, external airbags, and augmented reality features.

Thanks to sci-fi films, we could easily envision how impressive cars of tomorrow might be. But then again, imagination does not always meet reality. The year 2050 may paint images of cutting-edge automobiles in our heads, but it will likely not bring as many changes to the cars we know as some of us may think.

Same Exterior Designs

Modern technology is going to make car interiors look more sophisticated. Heads-up displays will animate windshields, and virtual assistants will be our constant companions on the road.

The multimedia center will have no buttons but will still be highly interactive through gesture controls. Bio-metric security innovations, such as iris scanners and fingerprint sensors, will replace keys at some point.

While auto interiors will evolve dramatically, the vehicles will remain practically the same on the outside. Some automobiles may shrink to occupy less space and to traverse urban environments with more flexibility. The standard appearance of the cars of 2050, however, will not be totally unrecognizable through the eyes of a present-day motorist.

Flying Cars Are Not Happening

If you are hoping to ride a flying car in 2050, you may want to shoot that dream down as early as now. Yes, flying cars are in the works, but there is a general feeling they will not reach mainstream status in the near future, let alone decades from now.

Several challenges are preventing air taxis from being in consideration for mass adoption. Unreliable automation, inefficient electrification, expensive production, and loud operation are the major issues keeping flying cars from being economically viable.

Even if aerial automobiles were feasible, though, Elon Musk, one of the world’s leading visionaries today, does not think they are necessary in the first place.

In his StarTalk Radio podcast interview, the tech titan argued that motor vehicles operating on three dimensions would have to contend with more hazards, and they might not work when the weather is bad.

The CEO of Tesla Motors believes that there are other ideas worthier of pursuit to alleviate traffic congestion effectively. For instance, the construction of more tunnels, to Mr. Musk, is more promising than spending considerable resources to perfect the science of flying cars.

Gas and Diesel Vehicles Will Still Be Around

Many countries have announced self-imposed deadlines to phase out vehicles with internal combustion engines on local markets. India, the Netherlands, and Germany want to see nothing but EVs sold within their borders by 2030. France and the United Kingdom hope to accomplish the same objective by 2040.

These bold pronouncements may have created a domino effect, but they will not suffice to outlaw gas and diesel vehicles globally by 2050. Although EVs are the future, developing nations will need more time to ban fossil fuel-running cars completely.

Future cars will blow our minds, albeit not by Hollywood’s standards. The automobiles of 2050 might not turn out what we dreamt them to be, but at least we can count on today’s technologists to tell what is practical and what is unreasonable to steer the automotive industry into the right direction.

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