How will people travel in the future?
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- From flying cars to pods that travel at over 1,000kph, revolutionary new ways to travel are being dreamed up by ambitious companies. But which pioneering visions are most likely to take off?
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Hollywood movies have envisaged a future of hoverboards and flying cars - these imaginary machines might not be too far from reality. By 2030 a quarter of shared passenger miles traveled on America's roads could be in self-driving vehicles. It's believed eight out of ten people will be using Robotaxis in cities where available by 2035. There will also be more emphasis on sharing journeys. All this could reduce the number of cars on city streets by 60 percent, emissions by 80 percent, and road accidents by 90 percent.
And then there are flying cars - or more accurately - passenger drones and helicopter hybrids. Uber is investing heavily in this technology. Los Angeles, Dallas, and some states in Australia could see test flights within a couple of years - but these cross city flights will require changes to air traffic control systems, which will probably take longer to develop than the flying vehicles themselves.
Traveling across country could be far quicker too. China is leading the world in high-speed bullet trains that are capable of traveling over 400 kilometres per hour. By 2020, 80 percent of the country's major cities could be linked to the network. But for high-speed travel, the ambitious Hyperloop could leave bullet trains in the dust. It's an ambitious system in which pods move along tubes in a mere vacuum. The lack of air resistance means pods could reach speeds of over 1,000 kilometers per hour.
Virgin wants to deliver a fully operational Hyperloop system by the mid-2020s. The company claims its Hyperloop pods could travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 30 minutes. But the potential dangers of travel at such great speeds, and the cost, mean the Hyperloop will not be a reality for decades.
In the air, the makers of supersonic jets are promising to slash travel times too. Arion wants to carry 12 passengers in luxury at 1.4 times the speed of sound - about 60% faster than typical aircraft today, and rival Boom hopes to be flying its supersonic airliner by 2023, carrying 55 passengers up to 2.2 times the speed of sound.
Skeptics say these ideas are impractical and expensive, with many technical challenges to overcome. Despite this, tech and engineering companies are boldly taking up the challenges of passenger transit - promising to propel us into the future
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wow comment section is filled with scientist and experts , as always.....😄😄😄😄
Actually I am an scientist (almost )
1960: supersonic jet will replace those slow ass plane
2018 retired Concorde: hold my beer!
Who’s from EB?
bullet train is just a quite normal transportation now in china, while the US still dreaming and planning it in 2030.....
Coal energy is patriotic in the US. If the US loses its coal it loses its identity.
@@EclecticoIconoclasta no they like their *O* *I* *L*
Isnt it in japan?
@@EclecticoIconoclasta Hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣
Not maglev though
It's 2019...
Test flights for the drones are in 2020...
OH BOY!
Today one can't believe that these speed vehicles will not be on the road earlier than we expect. But it has the potential to call back numerous transport projects on rail, road and sea.
اموزش زیور. الات. خمیری
In the 80’s, I had a toy called Micronaut Rocket Tubes. Car in a vacuum tube propelled at high speeds.
Amazing 👏👏
I came up with this design in 1979. I was working with 2 engineers one disappeared. The other on was killed on a oil production platform in the Gulf. I never heard from that one person ever again.
Future is in our own hands....we must make our future marvelous
Travel is about class and comfortability
Supersonic planes are not new, the concorde was doing supersonic passenger flights from 1976. I would personally have liked more emphasis on the sustainability aspect of different ways of transportation, since this really decides what we will be doing in the future.
sustainable is not building these massive infrastructure projects across the entire country which constantly need to be maintained. airplanes can change routes at a moments notice but you can't just pick up a hyperloop and move it when a city becomes less popular.
@@Lildizzle420 cities that will be linked by hyperloop will not become less popular before a better and cheaper technology replace it.
Well said!
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Future is full of fun
Keeping up is the goal.
I can't wait to constantly tell my grandkids how much easier they have it
me: test flight 2020 hmm its gonna be 2020 after dec
That concrete bridge from thr thumbnail makes me think humans still live in thr present
hyperloop will be much closer than decades...
Fallout 5 is looking pretty good
LOL concorde 2.0 good luck......it was the sonic boom that brought it down.....wasn't allowed over the mainland due to damaging glass and noise pollution.
2050
I’ll still be on 80 subscribers
No your 81 now
Bradford T Sorensen Patents and a Marshal J. Corbett of Gruman Patent could make "NeoSeoul 2144 A.D." a reality while Robet L. Morrison's Patented lighter than air solids could make spaceplanes for routine hourly spaceflights a reality.
Looks like a lot of birds will be killed😔
梁浩 don’t worry a white person would shoot a couple schools
@@lianghao7128 oh look a racist ignorant comment from someone living in a homogeneous country about shit he doesn't understand que surpresa
+梁浩 I'm black your racist bastard
@@lianghao7128 wtf is that suppose to mean???!!!!
Flying cars are coming forsure
en la CD de mexico ya hay eso
As automatically driven cars become better companies such as Uber won't need to pay for drivers therefore limiting the cost a trip. Making it cheaper to travel
Chinese Hogh speed rail runs at 300km/hr not 400km/hr.
The Hyperloop will never be safe or viable, Thunderf00t explains this.
If they can make a space rocket they can definitely make flying cars.
People open your minds 😤
But rockets are unafordable they might be able to make flying cars for the rich also only one percent of a rocket is the acual payload Evan less if it is a renewable rocket if only 1 % of your car is the payload you would need a big car
Has The Economist made & published this video to intentionally ignore the presence of Tesla (autonomous cars), SpaceX (rocket flights) and Boring Co. (hyperloops) ???
I was also expecting a reference to Elon Musk's ventures. Others, like Google, are also working on AI to be used in transportation.
I guess you cannot fit every company or project in a 3:36 video.
Jetsons
Damit I wish I was younger. I'm be 35 in 2035
I question Virgins ability to create a Hyperloop considering how far they've got with their Space travel.
Elon should retake things in his own hands when he has times...
huihkjhlhlhh gigkjhkhljl,pm he’s got better things to do than to waist his money on that.
Craig Csintalan I think you meant waste. However, the Boring Company is making the tunnels, it won’t be long before he’s building the entire infrastructure from end to end.
By 2025-2030 Uber’s flying taxis will be heavily used....
I’ll be already dead when this comes up . No hopes for me
i am form 2537.We already give up earth.We live in 'Suniopin' now.
No Boring Company nor SpaceX references..
Not without a reason I guess. Boring company's ideas are so far ripped from the reality that we're defo not going to see them commercially implemented anytime soon... At least not in the next couple of decades.
Jędrzej Pyzik Two years ago Boring company started as a joke and two years later they already built and tested a tunnel in LA. Ten years ago spaceX can’t send anything to space, then years later they flew the most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two. We will never know how will they change the world in the next decade.
COOL ARTICLE
No mention of spacex starship point to point transport in 30 mins nearly anywhere in the world by 2025ish?
Yeah THAT will be the technology that will shape the late 2020s and 2030-40s, it's doable with slightly improved current technology, it's cost will go down proportionately to electric prices as they're hydrogen fueled and they'll drive urbanization to such great levels that they would impulse the economy
Contrast with flying cars
They perform no better than regular cars, would be expensive as fu**, use an enormous amount of fuel and don't improve society beyond astheticd
You know where the future is going
Ha ha... Ok, I am a Spacex fan. Great company but let's get serious... It is too dangerous, it is environmentally unfriendly, and it is expensive as hell
@@cabc74 I think SpaceX is not going to be the company that archives it, they're very busy, but it's a concept that is going to be exploited
Second, the idea is to use hydrogen which is not contaminant
Third, of course its dangerous, but that's because no-one had developed the idea before. We have all the building blocks, we just need to refinate and improve the technology
So I don't see where's the problem
Alejandro Zarzuelo to address your second and third points, what do you think the space shuttle used primarily, that’s right hydrogen, and it’s not a new idea and don’t talk about it as if you’re a part of the group of people doing anything. I like space x because I like all aerospace companies, but the amount of people that act like they’re the first to do everything.
@@CraigCsintalan pardon? I said it was current technology and, no I'm not even near the age to even start contributing to the cause that I previously addressed, I never said a thing like that, and all of my points were consistent, if you had something to add it would be great to listen but unfortunately I don't count with spare time to read criticism that amounts to nothing
in the USA I think roads will be converted for a bike lane AND a scooter lane and mixed use development will create more walk able cities so we don't have to travel more than a block in any direction. (this will be done using super towers) cars will be converted to passenger drones and inter city traffic will be supersonic flights and airbuses for high traffic routes. it not longer makes sense for us to build these networks especially when cities lack public transit
Who else is not exsited about the future
If you like comedy - read The Economist.
Bullet trains is an extreme costly product then the hyper loop according to statistics. It would cost 80 bill to build a bullet train and 5 bill to build a hyper loop and on paper a hyper loop sounds ideal.
But impractical the physics is not there, plus with a shrinking working population. Who would have enough money to pay. America made a grave mistake of abandoning trains to Japan and China.
Those people move population of the size of American cities, every days , but here in the USA you screwed If you handicap, blind or too old to drive.
The lack of productivity is immense, because of the lack of speed and dynamism. Now the Chinese are helping the Russians to with bullet trains crossing siberia
@@paultremblay4836
Automation will solve everything.
@@paultremblay4836 that's lack of local infrastructure, moving from one city to another is often superior in the USA because we have like 15,000 airports and china has a few thousand.
Will the hyper loop available only for the super rich? It doesn’t look like a mass transportation system for the general public
@@Lildizzle420 you can't compare airport with trains. Trains depart every hours or sometimes, even minutes if you live in Shangai but airplanes get complicated security, reservations and long wait that depend on weather.
But the trail go went through blizzard, rain because it has the guarantee of gravity, you can't fall lower than the ground
Losangleees
The hyperloop hahaha😂
Its going to fail hard
You have no idea what you're talking about. People like you were the one that thought mankind would never travel across the sea, under the sea, fly, or travel in outer space. If History taugh us one lesson, it is that everything is possible and achievable in time. You should never underestimate the ingenuity of our kind. If it was only up to you, you would still be a pathetic lazy caveman.
Some people are building he future, while others are talking shit. You belong to the second category.
huihkjhlhlhh gigkjhkhljl,pm Maybe a bit harsh but yeah replace ‘hyberloop’ with the plane, steam ships, or trains, and you may see where you are wrong.
@@The_Revolutionist go research about real practical physics about hyper loop.
@@mickmoon6887
I already did. As an aeronautic engineer, I only comment on subject I master.
Another hype with good renders. If only reality were that simple.
Pliz in hindi
The future utopian perspective is becoming ever more utopian in a dystopian reality.
Humans will travel in future vai means of transport.
I wish I was born In the future
shady al then you could live on a hot dead planet! That sounds like fun!
Hahaha i thought this guna happen in the new millennium 2000
We were to being doing all this years ago - nope nothing happening here - these technologies are not for the folks
HYPERLOOP/ELON MUSK
Poor from Economist. Hyperloop to take decades? Haha.. economist maybe, engineer not.
Just because you can build it, doesn't mean you can sell it. It needs to be a viable solution that can be offered to masses at an attractive cost.
What is the solution to tackle G force?
Send in the fantastic 4.
Zoltar
Why g force? It mainly happens on acceleration and deceleration. Just do them slowly. Same on direction changes. G force not a problem.
@@boomerrob9223
Because G-force are the guardians of space.
And jobs by 99%
I guess they’ve never watched Thunderfoot’s debunking of the Hyperloop...
How dose the optimization worked to global welfare?
Personally, I can't wait to see Japan's Superconducting Maglev Train that can reach speeds of over 600 km/h.
Of all the so called futuristic travel modes, maglev train technology and production is the closest one to being feasible and practical with enough ridership. In fact, China has a Maglev train in use since 2003 I believe.
Anyways, enjoy the video you guys!
Britain had a maglev train in 1984. Germany also had a test track not long after. But these and the ones in Japan & China are (or were) all short, highly expensive, and loss making. Drag is by far and away the biggest problem for high speed trains, not friction with the track, and maglev does nothing to resolve that issue. Couple that with v.high costs, electromagnetic radiation and reliability issues, should tell you this technology is unlikely to be the future. And hyperloop even less so, given the costs/difficulty of maintaining a vacuum and either tunnelling or placing it on ‘stilts’.
@@Benzknees can you prove there is "electronic radiation" and that it's effectively harmful? The cost isn't an issue because there is no cheaper alternative so the people who have the money will use the service even if it's expensive as they did with airplanes at the beginning.
Ronflex Le Procrastinateur - Studies show maglev trains produce 2-6mT of magnetic flux density at head level, and 20-50mT at floor level. The ICNIRP recommends exposures to static field of no more than 0.5mT, and indicates problems will develop for implanted medical devices like pacemakers above this. The ACGIH recommends no more than 0.1mT for pacemakers. Strong magnetic fields are shown to effect the neurons, bone healing/building mechanism, and muscles. A large protest in China recently took place at the development of maglev near housing, because of health concerns, and was suppressed by the authorities there.
Anyway, even if those problems were not enough, there are alternatives in the form of normal trains running on existing infrastructure. The French TGV has run at a speed of 574.8 Km/h. Wheeled trains and maglevs are close in terms of speed, because as I said before drag is the main limiting factor for both. And maglevs requires large amounts of power to sustain a magnetic field over long distances, which is the reason present tracks are all short.
NiggaTigga94 it will speed people right into Fukushima’s radioactive abyss!
By the 1980's we will be working 20 hours a week in a paperless world yada yada.
Heard it all 50 years ago.
One of my favourites was a kitchen design that was a rotating tube just large enough for one person with a tight squeeze hence no need to walk to the sink or toaster. After that I guess you'd be vacuumed off to your office.
Futurists have always been my favourite comedians.
Your units of km/h are atrocious! Who writes KPH??
Everyone!!!
We can also do the Tec thing in sins of a solar empire.
Back to Future part 4.
You will travel how your told bistches!!!!
By cars and planes, that's how.
Celestial wings.
not possible this world already near ro destruction.
Submarines that travel as fast as airliners will become the norm for international travel.
Dreams
Soon to be reality
um.. no thanks I'm good. I've had a nightmare that technology took over the world and I don't want This to happen
We will walk because global warming will have destroyed half of the civilization 🙈😂
1 degree warmer - WE WILL ALL BURN ON THE STREETS
Hopefully not!
@@Sheeshening If the climate does increase by the 5-8 degrees as predicted, then it'll literally ruin most worldwide crop yields causing food shortages, destroy the poorest and most heavily populated areas in Africa, India and the middle east causing a worldwide refugee problem, and would melt most of the north and south poles causing flooding of all coastal cities. It's a much bigger deal then you think.
Jetpack Rorschach
Follower of the climapocalypse I see. In reality temperature has been rising about 0.1 degrees per decade, detached from the co2 levels. Against all predictions, water levels haven’t been increasing faster than previously, so that’s not really a problem either. As we’re experiencing global greening, massively increased food supply could be a likely consequence. Apart from no iced poles, like the earth had for billions of years, we will see more animals and vegetation. If we don’t increase our emissions now, human flourishing will end in one of the next centuries, as we’re on the verge of dropping into the next ice age. Needless to say +1-3degrees >>> -15degrees and kilometers of ice above europe.
If you lunatics continue worshipping low co2 levels in the atmosphere, give your grandchildren guns, they *will* move south
@@Elzilcho87
*In reality temperature has been rising about 0.1 degrees per decade, detached from the co2 levels*
Yeah! And jet fuel can't melt steel beams, Jetpack!
Anyone else watching from 2119?
Its still 2020
in 20 years it could be illegal for people to drive cars - interesting
air traffic for drones will use AI for separation. perfect use case.
Lol at hyperloop
bombing the hyperloop will be interesting.
This is definitely a joke. If you cannot make electric vehicles that in itself explains it.
None of this will happen
How are you making a vid about this and not looking a the physics😂😂
They are not a physical sciences channel, they are an economics channel.
@@The_Revolutionist Well they didn't really look at the economics either
propelus plezzz
She forgot to mention China is about to collapse LOL
We don't need all of this..
7th
How interesting 1:23 you were showing map of China that includes Taiwan and in a blink of an eye you erased Taiwan from the map leaving only mainland there. Lol! I’m not blaming you for the political correctness, I’m just feeling funny.
In other words, we don't know and will need to wait and see. The video is useless
What about ww3?
No ww3
@@The_Revolutionist lol, where do u live? On the moon?
@@zackfair4332
I wish could live on the Moon or on Mars but we cannot yet. So for now, I live in Belgium. And you? Why do you ask?
@@tavernburner3066
I still don't understand you. I'm beginning to think that it is you who don't know how to write in proper English. You should really go back to school now instead of talking shit on YT.
Hopefully by plane. I'm training to be pilot and I'll need a job to pay off the student debt
most of your colleagues, like most specialists, will spend that decade denying the inevitable. if i were you i'd learn to program or tweak pilot algorithms. as a pilot, you have about one decade before your job is automated. that gives you a good start if you understand what's going to happen. if you spend that decade flying planes and studying automation within your field, you will transition well and your pilot hours will be valuable experience.
All these will never happen in US but only happen in china. Just look at your old infrastructure and railway. High speed train no happen now in US how do you expect better one will ever happen? All these will only happen in china and it will lead great improvement from asia onwards probably eventually hapoen in Europe but never happen in US.
kenny jong what is wrong with you.
@@CraigCsintalan i am telling you the truth. US manufacturing capacity was gone far ago. Whatever you invent in the US will eventually manufactured in China. Your highspeed trail will never happen as well.
@@CraigCsintalan all your money is in war machines.
kenny jong 你不说呢，人家还尊敬你几分，你这完全败笔。有些事情不需要你说出来，通过别国说就够了，如果别国有扭曲，你出来纠正一下无可厚非，你这赞扬中国的视频里挑衅实在不得体
@@weizhang2834 我只是告诉他们事实。
Well. I think she means. There will be more emphasis on group and shared travel. For us Riff Raff, poor morons.
For the entitled rich. The emphasis will be on making the poor lower their emissions. So the rich can continue to raise their emissions. But still be able to lie to themselves and convince their other rich friends. They are actually really good people. Since they took part in making those "other" " less than" people. Live by their, personal code of morality.
Now remember everyone. Your not important. So make sure your crammed into that UBER Prius parked over there. With 4 other adults that you don't know.
Al Gore and his friends. The never accomplished a-thing in their lives, except con other people into thinking they have a clue, Clinton's.
They'll still be the only 2 passengers. On a futuristic new AirBus 2030, that will be capable of seating 160 passengers and a staff of 40. But don't worry. Everyone involved will do their part in keeping the Earth as clean and healthy, as we all deserve. The Gores and Clinton's will agree to have their family dogs. Placed into a filtered, vented, air tight, dog compartment that's contained on the plane. The dog compartment will cleanse, vacuum and deoderize. The piped in air that will go into the dog compartment. Along with a treadmill system for the puppies to enjoy their daily exercise. The dog powered treadmill the dogs will be forced, I mean, allowed to enjoy. Will be used for around 5 hours per day. Luckily the wonderful fun, dog treadmill. Will be connected to a power storing generator. That the power created by the dog exercise. Will be harnessed by an electrical system. That will power the planes water purification system and the climate control systems for the passengers sleeping areas. The owners even agreed. To forego unneeded comfort systems on the plane. Electing to remove luxuries. Such as excess cost seating materials and padding, Air Conditioning and choosing to use a recycling, filtration system for the water. That will be used in the toilet and drinking system. These concessions, were gladly chosen. To help the plane be more environmentally friendly. They will barely be noticed by users in places they are to be used. Such as the staff sleeping quarters, staff lounge, staff work areas and a hallway in the back of the plane. Which the Clinton's and Gores may choose go to. If they desire to leave their personal hallways and living areas.
So you see everyone. Well all need to do our part to keep this planet as clean as possible. Because as usual. The good people on Earth. Like the Clinton's, Gores, Obama's, Gates, Zuckerbergs and Musks. Obviously be doing there parts.
So to, must you!!
like So they can promise. Not a single Gore or Clinton will ever have to deal with a single dog hair or breath an unpleasant, dog smell.
Yeah, the free market can do some impressive stuff, compare that to something like Nasa.
You are saying shit. I need to remind you that NASA sent Man to the Moon you ignorant moron...
huihkjhlhlhh gigkjhkhljl,pm No need to call him a moron for saying something he believes in.
So, nothing has changed from those ancient predictions at all...
Majority of these predictions have no grounds on reality, and most of the few that do are limited to the ultra rich if they ever happen.
You don't know what you're talking about. Tech progress is only accelerating and technologies are demcratizing fast so you're completly wrong and pessimistic. Change your mindset if you want happiness in your low life.
XSportSeeker Not really. Trains, cars and airplanes used to be expensive in the past, but now everyone can afford it. Do you know why? Supply and demand
High-speed bullet trains in China where the first designs were stolen from Japan and due to them cutting costs has resulted in lots of crashes.
You have no idea what your talking about. You have no proof whatsoever. In reality, Every civilization on Earth stole their tech from ancient China. Educate yourself and stop watching Fox.
@@The_Revolutionist enjoy your 50 cents. Any way to bad deeds does not make a good deed. O nk le more bad deeds.
@@tavernburner3066
I didn't understand your comment. I'm not an English native so forgive me but could you please explain to me what you wanted to tell me?
seriously, you have no idea what you are talking. Germans sold their maglev tech to Chinese and later helped them to build it after German maglev accident.
I don’t like it
Hyperloop, no.
Oh cmon electric flying Uber car things will never work- flying cars haven't worked in the past and there's no reason they would suddenly work now.
The reason they will work now is because simply because tech is progressing you moron.
lol well computers didn't work in the past either
Load of crap
Well. I think she means. There will be more emphasis on group and shared travel. For us Riff Raff, poor morons.
For the entitled rich. The emphasis will be on making the poor lower their emissions. So the rich can continue to raise their emissions. But still be able to lie to themselves and convince their other rich friends. They are actually really good people. Since they took part in making those "other" " less than" people. Live by their, personal code of morality.
Now remember everyone. Your not important. So make sure your crammed into that UBER Prius parked over there. With 4 other adults that you don't know.
Al Gore and his friends. The never accomplished a-thing in their lives, except con other people into thinking they have a clue, Clinton's.
They'll still be the only 2 passengers. On a futuristic new AirBus 2030, that will be capable of seating 160 passengers and a staff of 40. But don't worry. Everyone involved will do their part in keeping the Earth as clean and healthy, as we all deserve. The Gores and Clinton's will agree to have their family dogs. Placed into a filtered, vented, air tight, dog compartment that's contained on the plane. The dog compartment will cleanse, vacuum and deoderize. The piped in air that will go into the dog compartment. Along with a treadmill system for the puppies to enjoy their daily exercise. The dog powered treadmill the dogs will be forced, I mean, allowed to enjoy. Will be used for around 5 hours per day. Luckily the wonderful fun, dog treadmill. Will be connected to a power storing generator. That the power created by the dog exercise. Will be harnessed by an electrical system. That will power the planes water purification system and the climate control systems for the passengers sleeping areas. The owners even agreed. To forego unneeded comfort systems on the plane. Electing to remove luxuries. Such as excess cost seating materials and padding, Air Conditioning and choosing to use a recycling, filtration system for the water. That will be used in the toilet and drinking system. These concessions, were gladly chosen. To help the plane be more environmentally friendly. They will barely be noticed by users in places they are to be used. Such as the staff sleeping quarters, staff lounge, staff work areas and a hallway in the back of the plane. Which the Clinton's and Gores may choose go to. If they desire to leave their personal hallways and living areas.
So you see everyone. Well all need to do our part to keep this planet as clean as possible. Because as usual. The good people on Earth. Like the Clinton's, Gores, Obama's, Gates, Zuckerbergs and Musks. Obviously be doing there parts.
So to, must you!!
like So they can promise. Not a single Gore or Clinton will ever have to deal with a single dog hair or breath an unpleasant, dog smell.