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futuristic cars that don't just turncaused clean and green machines running on hydrogen instead of gas safetysystems are you crash and burn scars that push the envelope of engineeringkarthik of the future next unwanted mark what will you be driving about twentyyears or fifty years into the future using the future qb star trektransportation process which becomes science fiction has steadily predictedactual technological progress we can push the envelope as fast as you wantbut you gotta be careful that you're not running by your public gaze into thefuture of automotive technology and
you'll find as many predictions is thereare dreams and dreamers one of the breakthrough technologies that will fuelthe future is hydrogen the things that we can do electronically and transformi'm borrowing cars will just listen to our commands they'll talk backcompartment if they need the future of the use of multiplexed electricalsystems were we can coordinate a lot of different functions of the vehiclecalled the same time cars will do more than react willpredict your every move know what you're going to do before youknow it your self don't feel is going to be in touch with you very intimatelywon't be a passive i'll be able to very
active letting you know things at theright time when you really need to know them aerodynamic design and ultralightmaterials will push the performance of future cars off the charts adapted fromthe racing and will eventually make its way into everyday passenger cars pullinginto the future will bind technological wonders on imaginable today but it tooka rocky road to get there with surprising twists and turns that madefor an incredible journey for centuries men like leonardo davinci dreamed ofinventing a horseless self-propelled carry it wasn't until 1769 but the dreambecame a reality when french army
engineer nicholas mounted a primitivesteam engine on a three-wheeled wagon historians regard than 1769 cuneo as aworld's first automobile its steam powered with the tremendously largeboilers sitting in front of the singular front wheel good used car never pannedout from then on inventors continued to experiment withsteam powered cars while others were developing electric driven vehicles havetheir merits as well as their limitations by 1886 german mechanicscall ben and gottlieb daimler had developed two different cars bothpowered by a brand new type of engine both cars have their own independent ofeach other each car was considered in
its own way the first practical vehiclethere propulsion system was the gasoline powered internal combustion engine theinternal combustion engine is actually much more efficient takes less space onthe same car and put up more power than 40 minutes these early one cylinderengines work very much the same as today's a potent mister vaporized fueland air is compressed inside a cylinder spark plug fire igniting a controlledexplosion which drives the pistons word the pistons turner shaft which transfersthat power to the wheels at the bottom of the power stroke and exhaust valveopens in a vaporized fuel is expelled out from the cylinder the system at thattime an internal combustion engine using
gasoline as if you are the future of theautomobile at this time was still in doubt at the turn of the century therewere only eight thousand motor vehicles in the united states meaning fewer thanone percent of all americans owned a car it said somebody what about horselesscarriages what about what about those as a future that is what about there's nofuture in those things over toy but many saw the potential of the automobile isfar more than just a novelty in just a few short years there were more than 200companies making cars in the usa alone primarily expensive specialty models oneof those companies was run by a young entrepreneur named henry ford in 1908ford had an idea is brainstorm simple
was good cheap and simple was evenbetter the result the model t ford model t was the first practical affordable carit's four cylinders delivered a mere 20 horsepower but its impact on the worldwas immeasurable that time most automobiles were reallyplaythings of the of the rich and ford's goal was to make the automobile not aplaything of anybody but something that could be a universal transportationdevice for literally everybody they were actually very technologically advancedmachines they really work elegant in the true sense of the word ofbeing simple sturdy and almost completely dependable at that stage inautomotive technology it had an engine
with one piece cylinder block which wasunusual for the time he made extensive use of a steel alloy that made the steelbelt light as well as strong so those things made the car rugged and it alsocontributed to his ability to manufacture a lower price in the firstyear sold 10,000 model t's when he introduced the moving assembly line in1914 production left to 500,000 a year 1924orders cranking out nearly two million cars annually automobiles on the planetwhere ford analyses and reform wasn't surprised the way he sought the model twas all the car anybody would ever want but henry fordunderestimated the american public
popular demand for technologicaladvances put model t sales in rapid decline to feed america's automotivehunger ford introduced the model in 1927 it had a three-speed transmissionhydraulic shock absorbers and four-wheel brakes but the public is always wouldsoon demand more cleaned and checked in your carburetor just if you get morepower and better mileage practically from the very beginning drivers wantedmore power from their small internal combustion engines most early cars and engines with fourcylinders arranged in a row engineers felt that adding more senatorsto an in-line engine was impractical
because the motor would become too longto fit into an ordinary car to solve the puzzle engineers came upwith an ingenious solution arrange the cylinders in a bit better opposite each other bottom-linehorsepower with minimum engine cadillac designed and manufactured thefirst mass-produced us' production v eight in 1914 but it was heavy andexpensive to make it wasn't until 1932 when ford assemblylines rolled out a low-priced the eighth but the engine became standard on manycars in the nineteen thirties the world was suffering a crippling economicdepression with the car manufacturer's
mind to beat each other in thehorsepower race to appeal to the remaining buyers who still have deeppockets you had a few very wealthy people who work simply weren't affectedby the depression they were still free to spend and then you have themanufacturers coming out with v12 and v16 automobiles cars a double overheadcamshafts and four valves per cylinder during the late twenties and earlythirties you have begun to see what this car will do all right let's go with theonset of world war two car manufacturers turned their efforts to making moreequipment technical advances in power plants fuels tyre compounds and plastics
accelerated after the war the autoindustry began building cars that in both style and technology left the tough times behind and embracethe optimism of the future new features included automatictransmissions and power steering power steering is really simply a device tomake the effort of turning the steering wheel especially at low speeds easier mechanical linkage especially in aparking lot from drivers this plane weren't strong enough to turn the storywill show the power steering system is just an assist with pressure to aid inpower and comfort may have been most
drivers primary requirement many were looking for the moreexhilarating experience of a sports car an era of change was about to take placein the usa and it began with america's first real sports car the corvette whichdebuted in 1953 is an american icon very early on it became established as asymbol of youthful freedom little bit of rebellious knows but in an acceptableway the car was relatively affordable it was although the corvette was drop deadsexy it delivered more sizzle than steak engine and although it had multiplecorporation it still wasn't as fast as a lot of european competitors in 1955 thepower plant was beefed up to a 265 cubic
inch v-eight and pasta traction and fuelinjection were added in 1957 is it bad for technology and this is really quitethe public looks to it to represent really was a dream car but it was adream that people go out and buy it didn't disappear once they woke up while the sexy two-seater might havebeen a dream car many americans were looking for a sports car the wholefamily could enjoy introducing kind of car we had 22 passengers thunderbird andthey said how do you make a successful supports guard you put two more seats inthe flashy new mustang competition in 1964 almost half amillion people bought one more than any
other automobile in his first year ofproduction in history the old adage you know if you have any trouble findingquick and they found it and everything like it's easy to do isjust a nice car when we had the falcons so we had all the pieces we had theengines transmissions axles all i did was raised in which was expensive butjust put a new rapper and the baby that's what i want is a falcon who drove these cars might have one lossin their heart they brought her the muscle a decade of rebellious was the idea ofpaying the largest possible engines and
stuffing into the smallest possiblecarbon something that mothers and children loved it and it was just one ofthose things muscle cars that the late sixties andearly seventies revolved around it off some cranking out as much as 450horsepower those engines were really good when they're trying to make oureconomy but at that time you could have her ties drag racing portimao timesthat's what people would buy that's like the mustangs suddenly you want to put abig engine and they put a 429 and then had to go wider and have your characterin a 69 much different animal completely but the gas goes where we're about to gothirsty
1973 middle eastern oil producingcountries turned off the spigot suddenly gasoline prices in europe and americaquadrupled gas cost of fuel went up high the traditional companies we're stillbuilding bah they got eight nine ten miles per gallon there is a car that makes a man proudits japan and europe were already making cars that were fuel-efficient had decentperformance and were affordable american drivers priorities slowly began tochange one thing it may not be true he brought those solutions to cars thatwere sold in america customers were ready for the embrace this newtechnology
embrace lightweight cars even breakbetter gas mileage even braced lower emissions braced all of the conceptsthat we have perfected over the years in our tomorrow today there are over ahundred million cars on america's highways to make the next giant leapsinto automotive technology calls for radical solutions and the only way towin is to break all the rules that's what today's engineers are setting up todo with a vengeance today there's about 300 percent the miles driven up therewasn't a 1960's so if cars used as much fuel and polluted at the levels thatthey did then we would have to have a clear alternative way of getting aroundas we just couldn't live here with
poison the atmosphere we've got to beresponsible today in the automobile industry to make sure that were part ofthe solution not the pollution we gotta make sure that we're making our vehiclescompatible with the needs of the tomorrow this requires rethinking how webuild our vehicles how we design them and our power in 1940 percent of all the united stateswere powered by steam 38% were electric and just 22% more powered by thegasoline internal combustion engine modern marvels car tech the future willreturn on the history channel we spend a lot of time in ourautomobiles so it is no wonder we want
as many options as we can get to makeour lives on the road easier especially when we're stuck in traffic manufacturers have rightly recognizethat people would like to be comfortable that like to have their conveniencespower options we have hands free cell phone connections now and bbcentertainment for passengers only not the driver and those hot looking extrasoptions upgrades and gadget have been sellingcars since the beginning of automotive history today's drivers take many of theseaccessories for granted
but for early drivers they were thelatest in future technology the first cars didn't even have steering wheelsthey were operated like bulls with tiller's years passed before someonerealized that using a steering wheel with a gear mechanism are far moreturning radius was simply one of those solutions that somebody tried someoneelse improved upon ultimately because it worked everyone is followed and that now we arecompletely familiar with as more and more women got behind the wheel they demanded refinement that made theexperience less rough and tumble and
more appealing people soon wanted carsthat had solid bruce closed one of things like well up windows onto carswith peters they wanted cars that came in different colors they wanted carswith doors what human beings always want it turns out is more men and womendemanded a simpler way of starting the engine gas-powered cars require thedriver to prime the city with gasoline especially on cold mornings then the ignition switch could be turnedon before using the craic to hopefully coax the engine to life therefore veryhigh so you have to be very strong just a physically start your car
times when you try to start the courtwas told it would backfire which would force to crack backwards in there were alot of broken arms in those days and trying to start a car the crank handlewas connected to the crankshaft which turned pulled the pistons downward thiscaused the air and gas to be drawn into the cylinder an electric trigger whichthen caused the spark which ignited the mixture and turn the engine over in 1911inventor charles kettering produced a small electric starter motor with enoughtorque to do the same job kettering was working for cadillac wherehis electric starter first became a standard feature before soonrevolutionizing the entire industry all
a driver needed was the strength to putthe ignition pedal to the metal suddenly the car becomes usablepractical attractive too much larger segment of the population livedevelopments like that step-by-step made the car more appealingmore practical more usable for more people the same time movies got some carsdidn't to in 1930 the govern- brothers introduced the first commerciallysuccessful car radio which they called the motorola probably why cars are sopopular because you can control the interior of your car so he had a radioto entertain you could turn it on and
listen to the news this is your favoritesinger listen your favorite game and get a little bit of enjoyment while you weredriving along mission we've come a long way since the introduction of themotorola today your car can receive satellite carriedprogramming and information from anywhere in the world even in theremotest locations gps or global positioning satellite are already a keyelement of on-board navigational displays new networks called telematicsare expanding drivers in connection with an array of services real-timeinformation based on our exact location will tell us when we are approachingweather conditions that might affect our
visibility or control such as wet roadwe will also expect to receive traffic information that will alert us totrouble ahead there's an accident or the system will know where that is in youwill be able to program your navigation system route from point a to point b in thefastest time concerning the traffic conditions that exist right now he'salso signal or remote network of a car's location when you're in trouble even putus in touch with a live operator in the cars of the future electronics willcontinue to expand their role in all aspects of control in monitoring systems
your car of the future might includeconversational speech technology that allows you to speak naturally to controlonboard systems watch what i can do with the instrument cluster digital gauges i'm cold two degrees voice compartment even be able to the difference in yourcar i know my white pieces of foam 19 do so will probably be the thing that getscooler so yes i hear i can imagine me there for me navigation some topological challengematches that this which is really
presented differently today's cars contain as many as 30 microprocessors optimizing virtually every key system in order to maximizeperformance and control there's a lot of computing capability almost everythingon a car is controlled by a computer or moderate the things that we can doelectronically and just absolutely mind-boggling that they're absolutelytransparent to the majority of customers which is the way we like it for example with electronic controlswhen the accelerator is depressed the fuel is delivered at an even an optimumrate for smoother acceleration and
performance with minimum fuel way theengine in the ignition system the fuel injection and then all the emissionscontrols are are monitored by what we call an on-board diagnostics which ismaking sure everything on the car's working right and if it is and it canactually make minor adjustments as a correction this experimental gm's car demonstratesthe next generation of electronic controls called drive by wire drive-by-wire technology means thephysical linkages between the driver and the device here she wants to control arereplaced by a computer
tearing through a steering wheel in thesteering shaft directly attached to the wheels that's done like every aircraftand these days done by wire and the same with thebreaks every other interface between the driver and the vehicle control wiring iscarried in a single harness and permit the driver to locate controls andinstruments virtually anywhere in the wide-open interior very easy for us toslide the controls on the left side to the right side to be that drive inengland or here or maybe if i get hired driving you could just drop the controlsover without having to get out of the car no matter how smart cars get theystill won't guarantee you a free parking
space in japan toyota is developing carsthat actually parked themselves through a rear-mounted camera the driver choosesthe coveted spot in the display then the computer controls the steering and guidethe car in self parking cars may be the first step towards self-driving cars atleast in a controlled situation like a freeway the system will then check to see if itcauses a little walk into a platoon after fifteen cars that will be able togo to part with fairly high rate of speed some some positions are as high as 90miles an hour and the driver can stop
driving back and read your newspaperuntil you get to your destination where the control of the car is turned backover to you and you pull out and driving cars may be a good idea considering thedistractions from sophisticated entertainment options available now willprobably only increase in the future boards motion-based driving simulatorcold vertex or virtual test track experiment drivers are being analyzed tosee just what kind of tests they can safely do behind the wheel maintain a constant distance basicallyyou've got five things to do that you're trying to pay attention towhile we're looking at is the effects of
some of the newer things that are beingput into vehicles things like saffron navigation systems information displaysystems that are going into vehicles what's the effect on the distraction andthey provide to drivers who are supposed to be paying attention to the researchfound that hands-free cellphones were less distracting but incoming calls werestill a problem in the future the car may decide whether you should check thephone call the vehicle is actually sensing what's going on around himperhaps with cameras and things and saying okay this is now a serious timethe driver should be paying attention vehicle makes the decision prime won'tlet the phone work at that particular
time these types of things i mighthappen in the future drive-by-wire eliminates many mechanicalelements and decreases the number of movie plots it makes the vehicle ailishincreases response and reduces the need for vehicle services modern marvelscontext of the future will return on the history teacher the beginning of the 20th century twiceas many americans have been killed in an auto accident that in all the warsamerica has ever fought accidents begin to happen pretty much as soon as theirautomobile anytime you've got people moving around in some kind of vehicleofficially something unexpected in an
unfortunate is going to happen theearliest cars might have looked harmless but in reality they were deathcraftautomobiles by our modern standards were extraordinarily unsafe they were veryhigh off the ground made them prone to rollover typically they only had breaksin the rear wheels brakes were awful used to be the car company didn't wantto talk about safety that doesn't sell its not remind consumers that they canget hurt in the early improvements were simple ones lowering the car's center ofgravity increased stability widening the wheelbase improved cornering and overallhandley and one-time accident victims were cut to shreds by shatteredwindshields after researching the
situation engineers came up with a lifesavingsolution safety glass but simply sheets of glass adhered to a thin plastic layerin between them and this has the purpose of holding the glass together instead ofbreaking into shards the swedish car company vocal was a safety pioneer in 1949 they installed some of the firstsafety belts in cars by nineteen fifty-nine they advance to three-pointlap and shoulder belts proving that buckling up for safety could make itpossible for a crash victim to walk away but two drivers in america safety wasstill a dirty word is to say to me in
the press you said she doesn't sell iphone insteadthat way i can charlotte people won't buy it i was advertising if you get anaction and we've done we've had the dash we put in seat belt sign in with tellingwhere most people got up and sat on and take him out what he's supposed to doyou switch to put yourself in they won't do it seatbelts were made mandatory featureson all cars sold in america in 1967 now they're more than an option for use asrequired by law today the latest in cdale design is thefour point system three-point belt is
very good but in certain circumstancesyou can rotate the belt because you're not being held in on one shoulder with afour-point it's much like a racing car held into the seat better and it's notjust for the driver there is a rear-seat briefing for the kids to what you'll seein the future our seats that are adjustable to bring the cd and positionthat also you can look out he's comfortable in using the seat belt killed only because they don't wear seatbelts reason to wear seat belts are not comfortable and they can't see how thecar so you'll see that kind of issue being addressed the future of seat beltsystems will include pretensioners died
just sensors that react to veryheartbreaking or even vehicle collision detection warning pretensioners with a seat belt since theonset of an impact and the seat belts around you and then even as your body isforce forward they lack their tension just a little bit so that the body isn'tslammed into the seat belt there was an even bigger safety breakthrough hiddenbehind the wheels one might think that in the last 50 years prime developmentto improve safety in automobiles but that's actually a close second the prime four-wheel disc brakes withanti-lock
this break includes a rotor and caliperthe caliper closes against the rotor with applied force from one to fourpistons causing the wheel to stop spinning the antilock braking system absinterprets the speed and force applied the brakes and determines the severityof the situation the computer then applies extra break folks if the driversfor us is insufficient prevent the wheels from locking up in agovernance and stop situation you just hit the brakes as hard as you can andyou can still see the car and have control of a rather than going to ask ifhe devised has received more praise or criticism from both consumers and carmakers than the airbag research on the
airbag began in the early nineteenseventies bank was closed up in your face verymuch in the early days there were a lot of concerns with some justificationabout how effective the bag would be that is wouldn't go off when you neededit too and is there a possibility might go off in error since their inceptionthe technology behind the air bag has been greatly refined they are truly anamazing piece of engineering when sensors ascertain a collision forceequal to running into a brick wall attended fifteen miles an hour nitrogen gas is produced in filled nylonair bag at a speed of up to two hundred
miles an hour and within 150 of thesecond of sensing the crash when they worked and the engineer said it's gotime we made him standard for out we just implemented in the next 50 yearswhen imagined all cars will have to be air bags or some other type of interiorsafety system to protect the occupants from impacts in any direction from therear or side or even rollovers safety has gone from being almost a taboosubject to being only mainstream but actually attractive to many factors alot of congress this little red car is a rolandlaboratory mobile calls it the sec safety concept car packed withtechnology you'll be seeing in your car
in the future that technology will be transparent justenhance the driving experience the forward collision warning radar tellsyour cruise control when you're getting too close to quickly getting drowsy andyour office in approaching a vehicle very close we will have a system thatwill alert you usually but as you proceed towards his vehicle we may startapplying the brakes at the centers no longer detected vehicle in front of yourcar would accelerate back to its electric speed the lane changing aids and is whensomeone is approaching in a blind spot
in the next lane and let you know beforeyou make a mistake and there are cameras all over the car to better see yoursightings directly behind you and what your kids are up to what we want tocreate as a car that there's no surprises when you move around asituation is designed specifically to help you seeout of the car better feature is that when you sit in the car there's a niceanswer that looks for the whites of your eyes and brings the seat to a positionthat we know is the best for you to be able to stay out of the car everything will adjust to your perfectdriving position the seat the flower
petals the steering wheel and even thegear shift once in position lines but will disappear what is knownas the eighth killer is partially transparent so you can see through itthe usual over the shoulder blind spot caused by the b-pillar is also reducedby 25% because the pillars bend inward such a design also add protection in arollover accident the advanced light system uses sensors to automaticallyadjust headlights to changes in the road and the active night vision system willhelp you see in the dark and prepare the car to react before you do next stage ofthe act of nineteen system where i can see with clarity with a long way nowanalyze what's happened in the driver's
family and then controls on the cdfeatures we have inside the vehicle the experimental at 400 carving hismercedes rolling laboratory the name carving says that all it's likea slalom skier carving turns down a time course its main safety feature is itssteering system called active camera control when cornering the car's wheelsleaned into the bend angle up to twenty degrees increasing stability andreducing the danger of spilling the tilt angle is controlled by a drive by wiresystem which measures speed acceleration steering turning and lateral forces thenits active hydro pneumatic system optimizes the suspension and shockabsorption in line with the changing
situation on the road all at lightningspeed it also uses special tires that are asymmetrical which means the innerarea of the trend is slightly rounded off when driving straight ahead the other trade meets the road whenturning the inner trade is in contact mercedes says the system improveslateral force by as much as 30 percent to 1.3 geez it all adds up to handlingquartering at higher speeds more like a motorcycle and a car one thing is clear behind tech car ofthe future will do everything it can to make our lives but will we be giving ittoo much responsibility for drivers with
the most important safety feature we cando a lot we can have more and more technology to drive her i think therewas a natural backlash to giving over too much control the technology we like technology to offer usconvenience and safety measures that i don't think very many people yet areready to turn over control of the vehicle to a microprocessor and hasbecome a passenger we like to drive if we didn't we could take a bus take atrain take a plane the national highway safetyadministration estimates that in the us- the seat belt saves over four thousandlives and prevent over 100,000 injuries
each year modern marvels future will return on thehistory channel sports cars close to the ground wind in your facethe world seems to have a love affair with the sports car cars are meant to bedriven as opposed to passenger cars which are meant to be written these carsthat theoretically their entire purpose is to entertain the driver and one verylucky passenger factor frankly if you want to connectwith a certain freedom i youthfulness time of life an attitude toward lifebrands like mustang thunderbird come to
symbolize something in all of ourpsyches and that really doesn't go away but it's not just about fun sports carsplay an important role in the future of car technology since 1904 when receivedhe's turned his first race card into a road car cutting-edge innovations havebeen trickling down from the racetrack going first in the sports cars andfinally into regular passenger vehicles of motorsport has been an immenseprovocative technology improvement means they'rebeing exercised right up to the last to gain speed and handling chronic traction control with brakingefficiency and everything that related
to the motor vehicle probably thebiggest technology higher passenger car tires used to be really bad how often doyou get plowed and planted all the time you get the tire squeal today'spassenger car tires are actually as good as race car tires were twenty years ago exert tremendous gravitational forcesand heated high-speed so tire makers have develop synthetic compounds thathave excellent performance characteristics in a variety of racingsituations furthermore trend designs have been customized for dry conditions racing teams must choose the right tirefor a particular track and weather
conditions on a given race day like somany factors in racing it's a science race cars advanced aerodynamics and a lot of thelessons learned from developing ovarian average had been passed on additionalpassenger cars of today come from racing are these on-board diagnostic computersthat are continuously monitoring the functions of our cars that kind ofstarted out as the crew chief standing on the side of the track with telemetrymonitoring what's going on in the end of the race car to keep track of that while many production car manufacturershave participated in racing with varying
degrees of success fewer names are synonymous with bothrace and streetcars perhaps none personify this idea more than a name forrobbery company founder enzo ferrari wasrelentless in his quest for perfection he was single-minded he was almostautocratic when it came to ruling is domain his ferrari empire like manymanufacturers before him enzo ferrari took advances were in fromhis race cars and incorporated them into a sports cars his methods below the newaxiom race on sunday on monday he was unnatural racing wanted to userating to promote his cars built cars
principally for racing first and thensold them to the public mostly as a way to fund his racing activities thatcreate a terribly attractive he said of reasons for wanting a ferrari people whobuy for is now in a very real sense are buying into ferrari's formula one racingactivities the to really do go together parolees latest bid for supercarssupremacy is the formula 1 inspired ferrari enzo a 660 horsepower v12 rocketthat birthed from 0 to 60 in 3.1 seconds and has a top speed of over 200 milesper hour aerodynamics dominate their formula 1car designs the ngos form follows the same function to pierce through theatmosphere with the least resistance
ferrari engineers have designed the carto be aerodynamically stable they've used extensive wind tunnel tests tomaximize airflow in order to optimize downdraft in drag forces they've alsoborrowed electronic shifting controls from their formula 1 cars that aremounted on the steering wheel so the driver's hands are kept with are neededmost and the steering wheel even displays the two companies readings in aseries of leds the enzo is as close to the ferrari formula one drivingexperience as an owner can get a cool $660,000 there is the portion dr. ferdinandporsche is credited with creating the
volkswagen beetle in the nineteenthirties but his first name say cars didn't debut until 1946 since theporsche has built its reputation on his road cars first the 356 then the 911among others as well as its race cars many times the winner of endurance racesat lamar and daytona while the company's flagship has been the 911 turbo a brandnew porsche supercar has joined the ranks the carrera gts gtv represents theepitome of the company's illustrious track record for technical innovationlike the 911 trouble the courage et could compete on a racetrack with fewmodifications its suspension is tight its center of gravity low carbon fiberbody very lightweight and its
aerodynamics maximized the rear spoileris signature porsche he can be electronically raised for maximumdownforce at high speed combined with its integrated front spoiler which keepsthe brought in from lifting at top speed the carrera ged makes the most of the to5.5 leader 560 horsepower v10 engine top speed of breathtaking 205 miles perhour to slow down has given the car its aroma compositebrakes the ceramic brake disc is a specially treated carbon fiber materialcross drilled and internally bennett the brake pad is a composite materialstogether they greatly reduce heat generated from heartbreaking and haveoptimum resistance to brake fade
of course all this technology as well asits pedigree is just as impressive a price tag $440,000 in its first year forsure plans to build only 1500 korea gte's champion driver steve saleen whoseirvine california company has built its reputation racing and customizing competition is now building his own version of thecar of the future the $360,000 saleen s7 is a directtranslation of racing technology adapted to use a lot of sports cars supercarshave really been developed out of racing
background has really an able to takealmost 99% learn on the racetrack and put it into our street cars s7 his custom built by hand it's 560horsepower all aluminum va can hit top speed in excess of 200 miles an hour its dynamic styling is made possible byknowledge gained in the aerospace industry aerospace is using a lot ofexotic materials materials are making their way now into passenger inproduction cars the s7 body for example is a hundred percent carbon fiber carbonfiber is a strong as aluminum and ultra-lightweight
can be formed and weighs middle can'tdisadvantage is more than cosmetic it's all about keeping the car glued to theroad at high speed hit 64 air vent and aerodynamics coming here around and through the car reducing drag and improving downforce avery elaborate system of vents and ducts that allow a continuous years fromthroughout the whole car that starts at the front through what you see here withadvanced in adopting into an airfoil literally on the side of the car whichthen in turn channels it into the engine compartment and then back through theback of the car giving us the best
aerodynamics of any production car onthe road today with a price tag of around $400,000 the power of the s7 willremain in the hands of a few months team believes you're getting a glimpse of thefuture of everyday automobiles when you feast your eyes on his supercar whatwe're really watching and i think you'll see is that the use of these materialsin the layout and the way i get send a pic from racing will eventually makethis way into everyday passenger cars and it just as a matter of time a matterof cost becomes more and more problem in 1911 ray harroun long theindianapolis 500 without the use of writing and utilized a new feature thatallowed him to see what was happening
soon after rearview mirrors became astandard item modern marvels partake of the future on the history channelengines that will power cars in the future is the subject of much debatepredictions are as varied as there are models of cars today but one thing isfor sure we are on the verge of a new era every bit as revolutionary as theone that began the age of the automobile it is still gonna be just an engine carsthat are running gasoline maybe we are gonna end up going back to electricsthere's new propulsion system call fuel cells maybe we're gonna start turning tothat now so it's very much up in the air just like it was back then
at the beginning of the 20th century thetechnical future of the horseless carriage was undecided there was no dominant technology earlycars were powered in a variety of ways railroad cars powered boats like a newpower cars cars during their day were among the fastest the steam car you hadmaximum torque 0 rpm so acceleration was lightning quick for 1900 1905 cars isthe stanley t created by francis in freeland stanley in 1897 boiler providedenough pressure to drive a two-cylinder engine located on the floor the motorand only sixteen moving parts and no spark plugs transmission clutch yourgear shift the downside it took at least
half an hour to get up a head of steam in 1906 the stanley brothers buildersstreamlines car powered by a 184 cubic inch twin piston steam engine thiscompares to a 735 cubic inch v-eight internal combustion engine driver fredmarriott set a world land speed record of 127 miles an hour on daytona beachwhich remain unbroken for another four years the steam car lost out to gasolineengines only after cadillac self-starter made starting us cars easier electricity power many automobiles andelectric car was quiet green running and
easy to handle they became popular primarily withladies of the day because she didn't have to get out and crank it to start itor lighting steam boiler you just got in to switch push the lever you just wearoff silently and of course there was thegasoline powered internal combustion engine pound-for-pound gasoline moreenergy in it than just about any other fuel it was easy to refuel a car withgasoline it was fairly quick gasoline was very efficient automobile seem to better reflect thenew social realities the horseless
carriage was ushering in the gas car atgreater range and speed that could provide more mobility and freedom butdecision to make gasoline fuel of choice was also aided by a major discovery andindustry's willingness to explain it when vast oil reserves were discoveredin texas during the turn of the 20th century gasoline was it after that thereis no question about it but now dwindling oil reserves shrinking ozonelayer and other environmental pressures have driven automakers to improve thegasoline engine of today's cars environmental pressure to try and makecars missions tailpipe standards when it'sdone is force the other manufacturers to
build cars with traditional gasolineengines at the same levels as what it would take to charge an electric carwith all those are currently on the road from a number of manufacturers but thesame time these cars are more fuel-efficient and for their size morepowerful than cars of the past year probably the best cars ever built but gasoline power alone is not the onlyreason technology has created a variety of new engines that may do an evenbetter job of propelling the cars of tomorrow there's a lot of debate todayabout what power trends emerged internal combustion engines diesel fuel cellssolar all of these are great new
technologies are emerging that aremaking internal combustion engines but the fact is i believe it's movie matrixof these this matrix of potential alternative power sources will takeyears to develop but one version is already on the market hybrid technology using gasoline thehard words as we see them today that really means to power sources in the carwhat we're used to seeing today is that what they call the hybrid electric whichis an internal combustion gasoline engine coupled with an electric motor isone of several manufacturers that is already committed to this type of hybridengine introducing the prius to the
united states in 2000 this vehicle is asecond generation of hybrid technology has brought to the you s market andcombines a very efficient 1.5 liter gasoline engine with a very powerfulelectric drive system our electronics and electric motor and a battery systemrear it also has a very sophisticated computer system that monitors driverrequirement for speed and acceleration and then chooses whether to use gasolineengine in its most efficient range where the electric motor in its most efficientrange where the combination of the two to provide the best fuel efficiency forthe vehicle or combination gets approximately 55 miles per gallon incombined city and highway driving
gasoline engines do a really good jobare running high speed constant speed on the freeway they're very inefficient in to stop andstart city driving electric motors are very efficient in stock and startdriving and not efficient at high speed freeway driving a prius utilizestechnology which is a breakthrough because it actually in a synergistic waycombines the best of an internal combustion engine and an electric drivesystem internal combustion engine allows you to use the infrastructure thatexists today and gas stations their current gasoline emission control rulesthat exist right now the electrical
components that go with that extendbeyond what the ic engine can do and gives us a whole new world the gasmotors recharging the batteries to run the electric motor the next time youneed it and even when you use the break the stop the energy of the brakes is fedback through a generator and recharges the battery so you don't lose any ofthat energy so wonderful system it's the future where they really make sense ashybrid technology on larger vehicles suvs and trucks where the disadvantageof her british you have now to power plants contingent and a battery pack aswell as the normal fuel tank on a larger vehicle it makes sense you have to putoff
chrysler is already working on such avehicle for both military and heavy-duty use the dodge ram truck combines of 500horsepower diesel engine with an electric motor that also generate acpower they call it the contractors special that is the target market for usand that's what we think that would appreciate the value of this vehicleprovides we think that the sum total of those efforts on our part is going togive us up to 10 11 percent fuel economy improvement in this vehicle ford modelis an experimental hybrid that combines an electric motor with an internalcombustion engine that uses hydrogen instead of gasoline the model used aninteresting vehicle because it was
really a serious look on the part ofdesign and our advanced research department as to what would the nextgeneration model t possibly look like internal combustion engine hybridelectric vehicle transmission many believe hydrogen may one day completelyreplace gasoline is an automotive fuel engineers see this kind of hybrid is abridge or stepping stone to understanding hydrogen power began with the same engine that inproduction and our ford ranger pickup truck stealing day instead of burninggasoline in the engine we burn hydrogen engine to give the engineer power we'realso seeing the hybrid electric vehicle
transmission system where we've added anelectric motor to standard automatic transmission system like the otherhybrids this is a parallel system either mortar or both can operate is needed formaximum efficiency fuel economy has boosted by about thirty percent in foundthat hydrogen fuel card is on a par with a gasoline fuel car on safety there'spluses and minuses for both and as a whole lot about equal in people arecertainly comfortable with the risk of driving around in their gasoline fuelcars today they do it everyday so once we can get past the perception of asafety hazard with hydrogen people should be just as comfortable drivingand the hybrid concept could be pushed
way beyond only two power plants youcould have perhaps a half a dozen the same vehicle you could have also solarpower gasoline and talk about human power you might even have human power onboard your vehicle you might have a set of pedals under the dashboard so thatwe're creeping through traffic you don't use any external power is simply battleit the history of the electric vehicleprecedes the internal combustion and in 1835 a small model car powered bybatteries was demonstrated by professor strategy in the netherlands modernmarvels karthik of the future will return on the history channel
what we're looking at is probably thecar you'll be driving in future now while the car looks like an ordinarycourt probably outside what makes it so special and has most advanced powertrainin the world it's called a fuel cell electric car that runs on hydrogen thisis the kind of engine that may be under your hood in 20 years the fuel cell carsreally an electric car that's where it runs the wheels electric motors andinstead of just about it you plug into the wall it has a fuel cell hydrogenoxygen into electricity to keep the battery is charged in the most commonfuel cell type called a pgm fuel cells for proton exchange membrane hydrogenatoms are stripped of their electrons
organized the positively charged protonspassed through the exchange membrane while the electrons passed through acircuit to provide electric power on the other side the ions and protons rejoinwith oxygen from the air to make h2o or water the water vapor is the onlytailpipe emission and the performance is very respectable imports car fuel still delivers eightyfive kilowatts of power that's equal to 117 horsepower a long time what's new is our ability toput it in an automobile and drive down the road
history credit english lawyer turnsscientist sir william robert girls as developing what would become known asthe fuel cell in 1838 grow new that electricity could be used to split awater molecule into its two elements hydrogen and oxygen a process known aselectrolysis he figured that the opposite could also be true his gas battery worked and was laterrenamed the fuel cell for more than a century many othersworked on the concept but it wasn't until the 1960's the fuel celltechnology literally took off nasa needed a compact way to generateelectricity for space missions nuclear
power was too dangerous batteries were too heavy and solar withtoo cumbersome the fuel cell was the choice was outside its way product couldbe drinking water for the astronauts now just about every major car manufacturerhas some sort of working fuel cell product right in 2002 the city of losangeles became the first us' customer to lease a fuel cell car this made thehonda fcx the first fuel cell vehicles certified by the california airresources board and united states epa for everyday commercial use the honda fcx is 80 horsepower with amaximum speed of 93 miles per hour
getting it performance similar to a 2002honda civic but with zero emissions bmw is testing a full size 7 series luxurymodel the car has a conventionally designed internal combustion enginerunning on hydrogen but it gets them hydrogen from a different kind of fuelcell it called an sofc for solid oxide fuel cell power unit or maybe you cancreate hydrogen from a variety of fuels including gasoline and natural gas fuelpasses through a reform which preprocess is it before its conversion to hydrogenfuel cells stacked in the truck this ap you will also be operating at 42 votesinstead of 12 which will become the standard in the next five years
conventional systems will need biggerengines with larger alternators and emission systems to do the same with the advent of 42 balls systems areseveral manufacturer building cars were too much larger motor generator so it'sa starter motor when you wanna first article once the car is running itserves as a generator to take place on the all-time year and it's big enoughand powerful enough and durable enough they will you come to a stop to be shutoff and then started back up again as soon as you put your foot on theaccelerator to drive through an intersection or stop in the idea of citytoyota's experimental fuel cell is the
fch be based on their highlander suv iscapable of speeds of up to 95 miles per hour and has a range of 150 miles the hydrogen cars of tomorrow not thatfar away and we've already sold to in the state of california and they'rerunning their full suvs have had great experience for them we're developing the technology toidentify what we can do to commercializing commercialization willeventually bring down the high cost of manufacturing hydrogen vehicles other makers want to make sure thesecars of the future are as practical as
cars of the press we have the technology reliable if yourcar crash as much as your computer system crashed you will want anything todo with it what makes running an automobile with a fuel cell complicatedis not the fuel cell but the fuel although it's the most abundant elementin the universe hydrogen is expensive and difficult to isolate and it's highlyflammable so why used hydrogen his very potent with a month three times as muchenergy by weight as gasoline but with no toxic emissions let me show you what'sin the trunk and this is restored in this tank how did you like the fuelslike gasoline
treated with respect you have to treatin a certain manner it's not the hindenburg that could explode it's not a hydrogen bomb it's very safethese cars go through very very rigorous testing including crash testing there isanother obstacle finding a hydrogen gas station a few experimental fueling stations havebeen set up in california to support the handful of hydrogen fuel-cell cars onthe road but it's a far cry from the type of infrastructure needed to supportthe massive use of this new technology but proponents of hydrogen believe theobstacles artist greatest benefits very
easy it's not toxic it doesn't spill itdoesn't smell the receptacle up the vehicle taxes the station about 30seconds you can drive away the fact is our current hydrogen fueling stationuses tap water we use electricity through the water to crack the hydrogenout hydrogen is compressed into the tank of the car and the car drives absolutelyno pollution and the electricity that we use here isall renewable from the solar power hydro or will the only omission from the caris a little bit of water vapor if you're really thirsty you can drink what comesout clean it's an exhausting just everywhere and that's the power i thinkthat we need to utilize to chill our
economy cost has to come down and weneed to create a hydrogen infrastructure so people can refuel their hydrogenpowered cars those are the two obstacles are doing take another 15 or 20 years tofully perfect before they're on the road comment ten years from now you'll beginto see hydrogen-powered cars here or there but fifteen to twenty years fromnow they'll be the norm fuel cell technology will also change the way anautomobile is designed with hydrogen it's likely that plea components thatmake up the complete hydrogen storage and propulsion system will be much moreflexible in arranging them around the vehicle in a different way so we thenbegin to see the car or any road vehicle
take on much more interesting anddifferent forms the internal combustion engine is no longer going to dominate unconventional approach to design isevident in gm's high-wire concept car internal combustion engine create a verylow profile passenger cabin with a lot of room is hydrogen fuel cell everyother operational system mounted within an 11 inch platform under d thisplatform or skateboard idea could usher in a system of changeable modules that acustomer could buy and place on top of the skateboard what this means with that what thatskateboarder platform concept is aching
going to a dealership showroom and theycan order up an suv and they can even be for a couple of years ago maybe theywanted to be a sports car when the kids are out of school they can come back tothe dealership they can take off those pieces that they'd ordered previouslyand they can put on the sports car package for the mid-life crisis if youwill the possibilities are just phenomenal internal combustion engines can hurtless than 30 percent of the energy of gasoline into power electric motorspowered by hydrogen utilized forty to sixty percent of the fuels energy modernmarvels partake in the future will
return on the history when it comes to the automobileamericans love to take a good idea and make it their own it's about style it'sabout something deep something we want to make a statement and some of us wantto make a statement with their cars and that statement can be anything from arule cool sporty performance and a guy to i'm working to save our planet growing number of people are making justthat statement with their cars their customizing modifying and changing theirvehicles into clean green street machine it's perfectly legitimate to trymodifying your car to run on an
unconventional fuel or get astoundingfuel economy or not polluters much that's a brand of personalization that alot of us could apply to actually attracting attention to this philosophydriving outside the box was the goal on april 30th 2003 at the santa monica pierin southern california when media brands family and celebritiesdennis weaver is drive to survive the first american price-cutting the convoyof advanced and alternative fuel vehicles i don't know what we're doinghere is we're going to change the world to change the energy that propelled theworld idea was to show people a variety ofways 'cause good operate without using a
typical gasoline engine we got a very broad now no signs you'regoing to be gone in 30 40 probably actor larry hagman who played a rich texasoilman in the tv show dallas and fellow co-star linda gray got their first lookat a hydrogen-powered fuel cell they also got a peek at what you're lookingat is a 64 full body by carroll shelby and the engine was put together to runon pure hydrogen and that's what we're trying to do is use a clean fuel and yetwe still get the performance at what more can you ask for every kill for thiscar turkey will be making the drive at his2003 dodge coming 3500 series pickup
truck i started out missouri and i gotta endup back close to 6,000 miles brussels 305 horsepower diesel engine will berunning the whole way on a biofuels made from soybeans cross country twice what igotta back here so i can pack a punch in 2002 russell fuel that engineered marksmith jet car while the record books we ran 211 miles an hour in the eighthmile and the world record for renewable fuel feed unit remaining makes a greatday you'll also it makes a great following an engine on biofuel is not anew idea rudolf diesel successfully develop the basic technology in the late1800's he produced the diesel per on a
variety of fuels a one of those fuelsbeing vegetable oil when he gave you the motor one conference he was running iton peanut oil and we call these fuels fatty acid esters so what's going on now hundred years of path we're going backto what he'd originally designed motor to run on in the first place methyl esters plan fuels burn ninetypercent cleaner than regular diesel and give us as much as 40 miles per gallonalmost doubling the truck mileage but with no loss of horsepower if not monthsnot weeks we can make biodiesel now capacities there it's quick to make it'seasy to make the byproducts of food so
industry caravan of cars is up the californiacoast and then across the country stopping in 20 different cities beforeending at the capitol in washington dc's on the long road the drive to survivecars got to test their technologies efficiency performance and durabilitythe caravan met with enthusiasm everywhere they went and finally after15 days the cars rolled onto capitol hill we're always trying things you knowthat's the nature of human beings where species that created and this reminds meof the horse and buggy days whatcha
gonna do with all the jobs related tohorses did is we lost jobs will be more than compensated for those losses bycreating new jobs and that's exactly what's going to happen when we moved tohydrogen economy from less than $5,000 and only a few days of tinkering utah'sfreestyle skier tommy robinson modified his 1999 toyota tacoma four-by-four intothe intergalactic hydrogen car or what he calls the poor man's fuel cell onlytwo parts i had to put underneath the hood is one dry gas carburetor and onecolumn under pressure regulator zero pressure diaphragm the current vehicleswe have the internal combustion engine we have all the parts available that areflying off the shelf you can put on that
engine and make it more capable tiesdrug can run on pure hydrogen when he wanted to cross the country withouthaving to rebuild his limited supply contained in these pressurized tanksequivalent to a gallon of gasoline and since i'm achieving 22 miles per kilo onhydrogen i could have a range of a hundred and ten miles on straighthydrogen here but then the benefit to get all the way across country i had toextend that range that's where i went to high boosting just putting a smallamount of hydrogen in with the gasoline and air mixture then the rangersdramatically increased capitol hill snow-covered mountains oftelluride colorado meet killers
he's busy modifying his 1980international trucks fuel system for the winter so what i'm doing here with thisgas tank take his case may be inflated so far from the engine things aretypically warned that i want to do everything i can to keep it nice andwarm and make sure you live in jail because his alternative fuel vehicleruns not on diesel electricity or even the sun it's powered by recycled kitchengrease sara's calls his bio diesel fuel brieflyin colder temperatures it will turn solid just like cooking grease does inthe refrigerator he's intimate in fuel tank online cheap fast food fuel flowingit when it does you'll know it
a look at the jerez makes periodicvisits to local restaurants to collect the grease it rains it right out of adeep fryers into containers later the greaseestranged to get out just simply eliminating waste and we've got to driveidea is made tara's famous around to get even my guest tonight for church wasgoing to take this call john what's going on prompting periodic interviews at theradio station it speaks to buy a friendly fuel and i do have this dreamthat one day i might have a hand in creating one of the nation's firstalternative energy stations you know
like he'd be smoothie bar with a varietyof biofuels that you could get whether they be hydrogen for fuel cell vehicleor ethanol or bio-diesel for your big truck stars those guys it doesn't followin the footsteps of other people who is making his own footsteps and i love that in 1912 rudolf diesel said the use ofvegetable oils for individuals may seem insignificant today but such oils may becoming in the course of time as important as petroleum and coal productshave the president of modern marvels karthik of the future will return on thehistory channel card technology is made almost any color imaginable possible butthe success or failure of a production
car is a high-stakes game 1840 we plan acard today we planned it used to be five years in advance now through technologycan do with three years when you got a bet the farm like a normal one billiondollars at one time that three years from now whatever car truck you don'tyou'll be able to get your investment back sugarcraft you that's why it to meit's a fascinating not for everybody not for the timid for that very reason automakers rely ona very special kind of car one that helps both them and the public to decidewhether it's worth bringing a car like it to the market they're called conceptcars automobile companies unveiled their
latest concept car creations with greatfanfare and showmanship these one of a kind experimental vehicles everymanufacturer uses to explore the future when we look at concept cars he needsone of them we see a fragment of the future and some more than others becauseof the nature of the design it's the wrong hands to help guide scientists andengineers and designers as they bring all these elements together to build afuture world we're going in concept car is a necessary component indevelopment of new technology and so when we test the concepts aretesting not only the reaction but how they perform in the real world we canimprove on that and make cars of the
future even better the first stage ofthe process is a sketch on paper any designed starts off as an idea and adesigner's mind so the first stages to transfer from the mind into a mediumwhich other people can share with them next the designers their concept in clay find be able tothink in two dimensions producers have also built think in three dimensions sothe next phase fundamentally is to convert thosesketches into a three-dimensional represent a traditional process can alsonow be done with computers with the computers and stuff you can reallyexpand your whole vocabulary design you
can really explore new fundamentalconcepts that will really change the way we move around car design of the future is really agreat concept engineers you really have to be conscious of the package consciousof how people sitting vehicles how they interact with the vehicles with computertechnology that that process opens up a whole new world to us to move from asketch on piece of paper too hard model designed to production and crawled18 months is a radical thing a concept can be a technological study concept canbe a pre-production vehicle that is only calling attention to a vehicle that
put into production or concept can be adream and we call those three years ago dream cars and that's exactly what theyare and those are probably the purest form of sheer fantasy that anotherdesigner can come up with general motors was the first company they reallydevoted department to stealing vehicles and it was really alfred sloan who's thepresident general motors back in 1926 1927 hong believed in the future thatdesign would play a major role in influencing people to buy vehicles andsloan began the art and color section of gm's and hired a young california namedharley girl to run it earned a reputation for building custom cars forhollywood movie stars his first car for
gm's was the 1927 was sell a fastsharp-looking two-seater with its flowing lines and low profile the newcar created a sensation in 1938 appropriated what would come tobe considered the first corporate car built solely as an experiment in styleand function the buick my job job featured retractable soft-top roofpower windows and concealed headlights in 1954 all team unveiled what is widelyconsidered to be one of the most outstanding concept cars ever built thejet fighter inspired lesabre i think you can see how this car has been influencedby the jet age emerging jetty know there's a air intake in a front like ajet air intake and what's really cool
but that is the headlights around sothey're hidden in a swirl around in the front air intake neighborhood heatedseat and arraigned detector to automatically put up the convertible top the interior continue the fighter jetmotif and the lesabre was the first car to have a wraparound windshield whichall cars now there's just a lot of technology nist vehicle for the earlyfifties so it wasn't just a great looker this car was all about the future taking the concept car to the outerlimits in 1954 introduced the first of his firebird cars this is a car that wasturbine powered one person it look like
a fuselage with wings firebird one with the even wilderfirebirds 23 like many concept cars the firebirds were built to give theirparent company bragging rights didn't have a car build to test publicreaction to the idea of it going into production he had a bill to teach the public to saylook at general motors look we're doing we are thinking so far ahead ofeverybody else just think of what kind of technologies embodied in yourproduction car if we're thinking this far ahead the optimism of the fifties touse one example is what actually created
those fabulous cars with tail fins inafterburner tell gobs of chrome all over them because we're really thought that'swhat the future would look like these fantastic concept cars ever sawthe assembly line they helped auto makers and the public to find thedirection of car design for the fast-approaching future generation ofconcept car today's concept cars are no lessenthralled by offering new dreams for a new age so far in this injury it's allabout choice and people want adventure they want status they want retrospectivedesign they want optimism they want rebellion your future is your choice andwe're gonna deliver that on a plate that
allows you to pick from a spectrum ofpossibilities because the whole point of design is for us to try to make yourlife better the role of science fiction will also have a strong influence inpredicting what cars will look like in the future if you want something with animpact that makes people think wow that is really different then you really haveto radically change the proportions designer harrell builder did just thatwhen he conceived of a sports car for steven spielberg futuristic filmminority report believes this is what alexis may look like in the year 2050for yourself what would it take to really push it over the top so theanswer was that
i ship the whole proportions too farforward that a lot of people when they saw the car thought it was actuallygoing the other way which is in a way great success because you really have tointroduce a new shape that people in a comfortable was that we're gonna see youprobably a lot more in that direction and then at some point they're gonna bepeople who introduced completely different shapes science fiction haspretty steadily projected actual technological progress is a former cardesigner who has visualize the far distant future in films such as tron2010 alien and blade runner consider this view of car technology of thefuture in need
illustration known as the silver coachso you arrive in this vehicle now you've got high technology because there's oneway on the front and that big black sphere in back is the traction themotive power steering and suspension everything and it literally is floatingin this loop minutes trapped by electromagnetic attraction because itssphere you can roll the thing down around the circle and market you can goforward backstop start so it's an idea for a very elaborate kind of vehicle andyou can just see the two people back getting out there just arrived and youcan make anything of it that you like the 1956 firebird to concept car waspart of a plan for a controlled access
electronic highway system the roadwaywith embedded wires from pop to pick up the signal and steer the vehicle modern marvels contacted the future on the history channel the ultimate cardtechnology of the future has to be a vehicle with all the comforts of a carwithout the constraints of the graph the so-called flying car flying cars alreadyexist in cars were developed in the nineteen sixties the first flying car tobe certified by the civil aeronautics administration the predecessor of thefaa was the air fabian a plane adapted for the road its six-cylinder enginecould fly at 120 miles per hour in
private 50 miles per hour in the 1960'sthe arrow car gained notoriety flying on tv shows the cockpit with a fiberglassshell based on a geo metro car a ten foot long drive shaft connecting theengine to a pusher propeller even though this was the most successful flying carever built like a venture capital k mass production on the ground carrow car wasthe last row double aircraft to receive faa approval since the nineteen eighties carl moellerand his company more international has been working on hovercraft technologyearly model uses a pro two engines generating 400 horsepower rotary enginesare giant fans pushing air done to
create lift mir's new experimental m400 sky car usesfor rotary engines generating 720 horsepower engines can rotate afterliftoff to create forward rushed to the speed is projected to be 380 milesenough this computer-generated hovercraft from metro industries showswhat a personal hovercraft of the future might look like its flightcharacteristics are very similar to a helicopter but while cross countrycommunity might be practical grocery shopping might be a lot more complicatedwe are problems with drivers who can't look right and left
think about if they have to be in theair right left hand up and down i think eventually the day will come wheretechnology will catch up and we will have a flying car that popular scienceand all those people in the fifties really wanted to see every year more andmore serious scientists assume that we will figure out why gravity works wereally don't know still and how to control it so you've got to havecapacity gravity capacitor of some kind and then carefully control the energygoing into the capacitor coming back how likely do in any personal electronics inorder to control gravity and i think we'll we'll do it
today the future of car technology istaking shape at schools such as the art center college of design in pasadenacalifornia for seventy years this campus is educated more name car designers thanany other place in the world here the students must master the various skillsthey'll need to design the cars of tomorrow a rule that will grow in importance inthe years ahead huge opportunities for the car industryin future to think more about much greater array of vehicles that anyparticular customer might choose to use according to what their journey is goingto me and we encouraging our students to
start thinking a lot more about whatkind of vehicle should we be designing which will enable people still have thefreedom of use of the automobile without some of the drawbacks michael run audisproject is to create a car that could help alleviate traffic congestionproblems in major cities futuristic thing about my vehicle is that itsself-driving its satellite gps control we're about two to three years away fromhaving a vehicle that can legitimately run around in an environment by itselfbeing controlled by gps satellites being that a self-guided the vehicle canliterally drop you off at the terminal in front of the building of a schoolsuch as a theme park ride and they can
they can run off by themselves and gopark themselves you never have to go find your car again if you don't have to any trend in the history of cartechnology it's that will keep one eye on the path while looking towards thefuture important thing about technology is itchanges caused lifestyles if you don't keep up with you lose so importantsegments of the market huge strides in efficiency in terms ofemissions and fuel economy and the cars we drive today compared to those of tenyears ago nevermind 30 or 40 so efficiency emissions control those areclearly trends are going to continue
what we're trying to do is to buildvehicles no trains are you have safety environmental responsibility emotionlondon dr easy convenient for juries customers of today no longer want justone of those they want all of them you can't always get hold of those thingshow to the same package at the same time but you can have a selection just akeyboard on the dashboard to decide how you want your car to be extremelydifficult to say what kinds of cars were gonna be driving future but whatever they are you knowthey're going to be very aerodynamic you know that there are going to be veryclean
to use materials that can be recycledand they're going to look really really cool automobiles rich history has proven timeand time again that the only limit on its future is man's ability to dream
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