Saturday 14 June 2014

our love affair with the car... and what it does to us

Tex Avery, in the 1950s, gave us an idea of how we really love our cars:



SciFi Xtreme Videos - Car of tomorrow (uncensored)

A humorous look at the possible future of automotive technology from the Tex Avery team of animators. Predicted developments include gadgets aimed at children, female drivers, young drivers, backseat drivers, tailgaters, road hogs (and their victims) and parking-space hunters. 

Car of Tomorrow (1951) - IMDb

How true are these ideas about cars today?
And what about the future of driving from our point of view today?

Here's a view from Disney - about the Jekyll and Hyde in us all:



Goofy in 'Motor Mania' (1950) - YouTube

  • This cartoon reveals that road rage is not a recent phenomenon, but an issue recurring with each generation of drivers.

Motor Mania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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