This interesting video discusses the real future of transportation and shows off some inventions that you may have never seen. Here is a brief background on transportation and some commonly discussed future ideas from wikipedia:
Most transport media in use today are generally fossil fuel powered. The reason for this is the ease of use and the existence of mature technologies harnessing this fuel source. Fossil fuels represent a concentrated, relatively compact source of energy. The drawbacks of such transportation media are that they are heavily polluting, and rely on limited energy sources. Many ideas exist which try to either harness renewable forms of energy, more efficiently use fossil fuel, or use human power, or some hybrid of these, to move people and things.
The list below contains some forms of transport not in general use, but considered as possibilities in the future.
- Air-propelled train (abandoned in 19th century)
- BiModal Glideway (Dual Mode Transportation System) travel (Proposed by William D. Davis, Jr. in 1967)
- TEV Project (proposed by Will Jones in Summer 2012)
Let’s check out these creative transportation ideas in the video on page 2
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Well worth the watch