The World In 2031 - Predictions

[Roobaba]

The world in 2031
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59008812

The world in 2031 - Predictions

Global warming fixed.. Electric cars (also E-scooters and drones) everywhere..
Robot 'menial job' workers.. AI controlled HGV's.. PLUS the METAVERSE!!!

or.. something else changes the world, the Futurists have got it all wrong?

[johnny.5]

is that about half past eight ?

[jan1956]

well Back to the Future thought flying cars in 2015 that didn't happen did it?

[johnny.5]

and hover boards

[douglas9401]

Global warming may well be fixed, in as much as the cycle reaches a cooling phase and Gretchen Thunderbird & co. take the credit.

As for the rest, waffle and guesswork.

[DTCwordfan]

Global warming fixed - very few residual electric cars - conventional cars and petrol stations - no fossil fuels as we're now using fuels made from concentrating CO2 in the air up, reacting it with H2 and tricity from nuclear or hydroelectric to create methanol and from that petrol, diesel etc are produced. Reality - possibly - Porsche in Chile are looking to seriously warp the current cost per litre downwards.....https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2020/company/porsche-siemens-energy-pilot-project-chile-research-development-synthetic-fuels-efuels-23021.html - the basic chemistry/technology has been around for decades as in the Germans using it in WW2 and Sasol in South Africa.

[DTCwordfan]

I saw BMW ten days ago and their view was that the life of the electric car is largely over by 2030

[DTCwordfan]

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2020/company/porsche-siemens-energy-pilot-project-chile-research-development-synthetic-fuels-efuels-23021.html

[ToraToraTora]

not much will change, few more lecky jam jars there'll be no self driving vehicles once they've wreaked a bit more death and destruction.

[maggiebee]

TTT, what on earth are "lecky jam jars"?

[ToraToraTora]

use your loaf maggie!

[Hymie]

From a Wikipedia article:-

At the end of 2019, Yandex made an announcement its self-driving cars passed 1 million miles in fully autonomous mode in Russia, Israel, and the United States. In February 2020, Yandex doubled its mileage with 2 million miles passed. In 2020, Yandex started to test its self-driving cars in Michigan.

As I’ve pointed out already – in the not too distance future, governments around the world will realise that humans cannot be allowed to have control of vehicles on public roads (they simply have too many accidents).

[ToraToraTora]

not in our life time me old china, dream on.