[lousyflyer]

Here is what I believe will occur in the next 50 years:

1. Gasoline engines will be phased out of production passenger vehicles.
2. Fuel for internal combustion engines will become too expensive for the
average car owner, leaving only racers and hardcore collectors as customers.
3. Autonamously driven vehicles will take over, further increasing the need to
remove human drivers from the road.

And here's the one that is absolutely inevitable -
4. Cars will only be available for lease periods, after which you turn the vehicle
in for recycling. This removes unsafe or outdated systems from the road.

If you do happen to own a manually driven gas vehicle, the insurance companies will not cover it. So you can only drive it around your yard or at special events.

The horseless carriage is about to to follow the horse drawn carriage into obscurity.