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      01-31-2023, 07:05 PM   #1
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The Future of Cars.

Behold, the year 2080.

All Cars are electric.

You have to pay taxes for each mile you drive.
You are NOT allowed to modify your car due to uncrackable ecu and or can't change the interior because everything has sensors to detect change and if you do, you have to pay a large fee and second time the car is taken away from you forever while you STILL have to payout the car in FULL, and are prevented from driving for 1 year and prevented from owning a car from their brand that you modified.

You can't change your own tires. You have to pay to install tires that have unlockable downloadable features which you have to pay for to get tread for snow or rain etc because tires are advanced. The tires have a mile limit and once you pass it (usually 1/5th the life of the tire), your car can't go faster than like 20mph even though the tire is good, they force you to buy new ones for more profit.

The car comes extremely basic, all the options are rentals. You have to pay monthly for ac, radio, creature comforts, etc etc. Only you can drive your car because it constantly checks your eyes and or fingerprints to confirm it's you. It won't let anyone drive and you can't approve anyone because the car is tied in your name, and your also CONSTANTLY watched by cameras in the car ans they have FACE recognition tech and KNOW who's with you and where you are.

Cars are also limited in acceleration and now 0-60 is always 15 seconds, ONLY DEALERS CAN REPAIR CARS. No more local mechanics. Sports cars are banned and speeding once puts you in jail for life, otherwise cars basically drive themselves in cruise Control. Your not allowed to fix your own car otherwise you void your warranty and lose your car and have to pay for it. If you keep fixing cars your jailed for 30 years.

SO Yea, you get the gist of it. Let's just hope unfettered capitalism doesn't give us a dystopia lol
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Behold, the year 2080.

All Cars are electric.

You have to pay taxes for each mile you drive.
You are NOT allowed to modify your car due to uncrackable ecu and or can't change the interior because everything has sensors to detect change and if you do, you have to pay a large fee and second time the car is taken away from you forever while you STILL have to payout the car in FULL, and are prevented from driving for 1 year and prevented from owning a car from their brand that you modified.

You can't change your own tires. You have to pay to install tires that have unlockable downloadable features which you have to pay for to get tread for snow or rain etc because tires are advanced. The tires have a mile limit and once you pass it (usually 1/5th the life of the tire), your car can't go faster than like 20mph even though the tire is good, they force you to buy new ones for more profit.

The car comes extremely basic, all the options are rentals. You have to pay monthly for ac, radio, creature comforts, etc etc. Only you can drive your car because it constantly checks your eyes and or fingerprints to confirm it's you. It won't let anyone drive and you can't approve anyone because the car is tied in your name, and your also CONSTANTLY watched by cameras in the car ans they have FACE recognition tech and KNOW who's with you and where you are.

Cars are also limited in acceleration and now 0-60 is always 15 seconds, ONLY DEALERS CAN REPAIR CARS. No more local mechanics. Sports cars are banned and speeding once puts you in jail for life, otherwise cars basically drive themselves in cruise Control. Your not allowed to fix your own car otherwise you void your warranty and lose your car and have to pay for it. If you keep fixing cars your jailed for 30 years.

SO Yea, you get the gist of it. Let's just hope unfettered capitalism doesn't give us a dystopia lol
That's not capitalism, that's socialism.
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That's 57 years into the future. So what were they saying about cars 57 years ago in 1966? How much of it came true? In my opinion, a small amount.
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Behold, the year 2080.

All Cars are electric.

You have to pay taxes for each mile you drive.
You are NOT allowed to modify your car due to uncrackable ecu and or can't change the interior because everything has sensors to detect change and if you do, you have to pay a large fee and second time the car is taken away from you forever while you STILL have to payout the car in FULL, and are prevented from driving for 1 year and prevented from owning a car from their brand that you modified.

You can't change your own tires. You have to pay to install tires that have unlockable downloadable features which you have to pay for to get tread for snow or rain etc because tires are advanced. The tires have a mile limit and once you pass it (usually 1/5th the life of the tire), your car can't go faster than like 20mph even though the tire is good, they force you to buy new ones for more profit.

The car comes extremely basic, all the options are rentals. You have to pay monthly for ac, radio, creature comforts, etc etc. Only you can drive your car because it constantly checks your eyes and or fingerprints to confirm it's you. It won't let anyone drive and you can't approve anyone because the car is tied in your name, and your also CONSTANTLY watched by cameras in the car ans they have FACE recognition tech and KNOW who's with you and where you are.

Cars are also limited in acceleration and now 0-60 is always 15 seconds, ONLY DEALERS CAN REPAIR CARS. No more local mechanics. Sports cars are banned and speeding once puts you in jail for life, otherwise cars basically drive themselves in cruise Control. Your not allowed to fix your own car otherwise you void your warranty and lose your car and have to pay for it. If you keep fixing cars your jailed for 30 years.

SO Yea, you get the gist of it. Let's just hope unfettered capitalism doesn't give us a dystopia lol
You don't remember the color difference of 55 on the gauge? Hell didn't someone write a song about it

You're thinking about this allllllll wrong. By then I'm sure I'll be way dead from natural causes. RIGHT NOW are available conversions to electric. Ford came out saying the electric motor in the Mach E will be available as a crate motor for DIYers to convert to electric. Over my dead body will my E86 go to the crusher before the last push comes to shove to force anyone to 100% ownership of electrics. I will convert my E86 and still enjoy my far outdated infotainment system that DOESN'T cause any type of distraction. I see Touch screens being outlawed far before any of this. Look at how keeping you "connected" went with just phones. States started going hands free blue tooth for anyone who had a car that didn't have phone connect capability. I honestly see Touch screens ONLY when in auto pilot more in the near future. It'll be equal to distracted driving for "being on the phone" now it'll read "rear ended car for switching music apps on the touch screen" All the while I'll be in what ever I converted with NO touch screen paying attention to the road forced to swerve for you to not hit my ass because you had to change the radio station and took your eyes off the road or your auto pilot F'ed up. I know a rant but really...what are all the ICE cars being recycled to? Junk yards are going to be the business of the future. The only solution would be Wall-E for the massive amount of ice junk that would be out there?

After all if you're going to make a flying time machine, why not do it in style

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That's 57 years into the future. So what were they saying about cars 57 years ago in 1966? How much of it came true? In my opinion, a small amount.
my friend just bought a 1969 Mustang 7-liter not sure 54 years of evolution have been all that significant
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All cars cannot be electric by 2080, there will be a mix of electric and ICE cars OR a limited number of electric cars if there is a mandate.
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That's not capitalism, that's socialism.
Makes sense. I mean socialists are crazy only they would monopolize everything, charge for every single thing, and when they have absolute power over even the government, they luck up people for minor things. Makes complete sense.

I guess capitalism is why the internet exist or why man went to the moon or founded nasa which discovered so many amazing things for science, and it's the socialists who are creating products like non complete games and charging for DLC, or in game money, or stats, or whatever, and creating monthly subscriptions for nearly everything trapping you into paying for something for life

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He gets confused between those two...

Nope. It's you who's been conditioned to not even try to see what socialism is. They just tell you Hitler (they were capitalist facist btw do research), and other names and you get too scared not to be conformist with the majority by actually understanding what socialism is.

SO in your mind, capitalism would NOT cause all of the dystopia things I described but socialism that is inherently NOT about profit, but enhancing everyone's lives, would? Interesting, tell me more Mr. brilliant PhD
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You don't remember the color difference of 55 on the gauge? Hell didn't someone write a song about it

You're thinking about this allllllll wrong. By then I'm sure I'll be way dead from natural causes. RIGHT NOW are available conversions to electric. Ford came out saying the electric motor in the Mach E will be available as a crate motor for DIYers to convert to electric. Over my dead body will my E86 go to the crusher before the last push comes to shove to force anyone to 100% ownership of electrics. I will convert my E86 and still enjoy my far outdated infotainment system that DOESN'T cause any type of distraction. I see Touch screens being outlawed far before any of this. Look at how keeping you "connected" went with just phones. States started going hands free blue tooth for anyone who had a car that didn't have phone connect capability. I honestly see Touch screens ONLY when in auto pilot more in the near future. It'll be equal to distracted driving for "being on the phone" now it'll read "rear ended car for switching music apps on the touch screen" All the while I'll be in what ever I converted with NO touch screen paying attention to the road forced to swerve for you to not hit my ass because you had to change the radio station and took your eyes off the road or your auto pilot F'ed up. I know a rant but really...what are all the ICE cars being recycled to? Junk yards are going to be the business of the future. The only solution would be Wall-E for the massive amount of ice junk that would be out there?

After all if you're going to make a flying time machine, why not do it in style
Well most modern bwms have heads up displays. I don't even use the digital dash all the info and navigation you need is on the HUD
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imagine this being written in 1900

"Behold, in 2000. You don't wash your own clothes. You don't draw your own water from the well. You don't get viruses (ok, about that one ...) You don't dump in the bucket. You don't ride a horse. You don't rear your own chicken. You don't slaughter your own cow. You don't milk the goat. You don't have 10 kids. Oh yeah and live pigs will fly on these flying machines."

Hard to know what happens in 2080, but I'd be too old to drive. Please get me a self drive car.
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There is no future for cars. Everyone gets their own set of wings (literally) in that era
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Behold, the year 2080.

All Cars are electric.

You have to pay taxes for each mile you drive.
You are NOT allowed to modify your car due to uncrackable ecu and or can't change the interior because everything has sensors to detect change and if you do, you have to pay a large fee and second time the car is taken away from you forever while you STILL have to payout the car in FULL, and are prevented from driving for 1 year and prevented from owning a car from their brand that you modified.

You can't change your own tires. You have to pay to install tires that have unlockable downloadable features which you have to pay for to get tread for snow or rain etc because tires are advanced. The tires have a mile limit and once you pass it (usually 1/5th the life of the tire), your car can't go faster than like 20mph even though the tire is good, they force you to buy new ones for more profit.

The car comes extremely basic, all the options are rentals. You have to pay monthly for ac, radio, creature comforts, etc etc. Only you can drive your car because it constantly checks your eyes and or fingerprints to confirm it's you. It won't let anyone drive and you can't approve anyone because the car is tied in your name, and your also CONSTANTLY watched by cameras in the car ans they have FACE recognition tech and KNOW who's with you and where you are.

Cars are also limited in acceleration and now 0-60 is always 15 seconds, ONLY DEALERS CAN REPAIR CARS. No more local mechanics. Sports cars are banned and speeding once puts you in jail for life, otherwise cars basically drive themselves in cruise Control. Your not allowed to fix your own car otherwise you void your warranty and lose your car and have to pay for it. If you keep fixing cars your jailed for 30 years.

SO Yea, you get the gist of it. Let's just hope unfettered capitalism doesn't give us a dystopia lol
Somebody needs to buy you a dictionary so you can look up the word capitalism. What you just described in your not too unrealistic but definitely exaggerated story is unfettered Socialism. How you can get these two definitions so mixed up with today’s research tools is beyond me. I’m going to blame the school system you attended and perhaps your parents. Either way it can easily be corrected with a little unbiased research. Good luck and let me know if you need help.
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The year 2080 ?


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The year 2080 ?


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OP needs to switch to decaf or try a different strain of cannabis....paranoia and opinions are off the charts lmfao
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That's not capitalism, that's socialism.
It is neither... it is a description of authoritarian dystopia.
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Somebody needs to buy you a dictionary so you can look up the word capitalism. What you just described in your not too unrealistic but definitely exaggerated story is unfettered Socialism.
I recommend going back to school for you as well, since you do not know the definition of the word socialism, but are extremely sure you do.
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I recommend going back to school for you as well, since you do not know the definition of the word socialism, but are extremely sure you do.
Unfortunately, I know the exact definition of Socialism. I’ve also read of dozens of examples over the centuries of how it’s failed people miserably. It’s responsible for some of the most corrupt and horrible living in the history of human beings. No, sir, I’m very aware of what Socialism means.
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Unfortunately, I know the exact definition of Socialism. I’ve also read of dozens of examples over the centuries of how it’s failed people miserably. It’s responsible for some of the most corrupt and horrible living in the history of human beings. No, sir, I’m very aware of what Socialism means.
Those aren't examples of actual socialism. It's also not a proper noun so you don't have to capitalize it. You just suggested for someone to go look up the definition of a word they were using improperly, but you won't even do the same. It's pretty amusing. There are some very good political science videos / courses / podcasts on YouTube and other platforms that can help clarify.



Honestly, this whole thread should just be deleted since it obviously violates forum rules.

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OP needs to switch to decaf or try a different strain of cannabis....paranoia and opinions are off the charts lmfao
Was George Orwell paranoid? He sure has been accurate.
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