10 Great Car Improvement Ideas Which Never Came True

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4. People Mover Technology

Dating back to watching cartoons in the 1960s, it has been widely believed that we would have people mover technology in-place by now that would take the place of automobiles in most cities. The primary concept behind this system is that it is basically a variant of a light rail system that can access locations that are too small or complicated for a train to get to using similar monorail technology. In most concepts of the adoption of this technology, the people mover system sits above ground (vice underground like the subway), and one either rides an autonomous vehicle or an advanced variant of the train to move from point a to point b. Although the technology is not dead, it is assessed to be a non-starter for widespread adoption as long as there are competing forms of mass transit such as buses or subways that are more convenient or cheaper to operate.