For years we have dreamed of technological advancements that have constantly gotten pushed further and further into the future. Some of these are the thoughts of flying cars, shoes that lace themselves, space ships that travel faster than light, and much more. Science fiction started placing dates of the early 2000’s as the time that would bring these fancy gadgets, but those years soon came and went. Here we are now in 2012 and where are we? We finally got hand-held touch pad devices that can do just about anything under the sun, but that’s nearly the extent of it.
The reality is that technology takes some times in many cases, mostly because of willingness to research and of people to purchase the products. There has finally been enough interest through the governments desire to mobilize more drone type equipment in war zones, including ground vehicles sparking the flame under a few corporations to develop the self driving car. Google is one of these corporations and recently released an inspiring video documenting where their product is at the moment. (Over 200,000 test miles driven)
There is still a ways to go before we’ll each have our own, but if it takes of like anything from apple has over the past decade, we very well could have our own self driving car in the next five years. It’s been a long time coming, and I for one am excited to be able to tell my car to take me to California, get a good nights sleep, and wake up having arrived at the beach. What do you think? What technologies are you looking forward to being developed?
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