Oh how I do wish this lot would just... FOC OFF!!

[simonm]

Calm down dear

Obviously its not a complete waste, I assumed that most people would understand that was an exaggeration

Having fun while driving isn't necessarily all about going fast and racing on the roads. What about general exploration and the adventures of exploring some strange new road you've never driven before? If we were confined to only manual driving on tracks then we'd all get pretty bored pretty soon after going around Silverstone for the millionth time :\

I disagree with the latter statement - if we as a race survive long enough for that to become an actual problem I would damn well hope that hover cars or anti-gravity systems were in existence to overcome this problem :lol

Let's remove the exaggeration and call it a waste.... I'd still disagree with you ;-)

You want to explore places... get a bicycle or a motor bike.  Cars take up too much room and are environmentally unsound when they only contain a single person.  The weekly shop will get delivered anyway... I can see a time when there won't be cars.

Anti gravity ? I can see the day they discover this being the day everything on earth floats in to space or the Earth stops spinning :-P ... and yes that was sarcasm.

Hover cars would be massively impractical, why use energy lifting people off the ground when wheels work so well ?  (Obviously for short distances).  I can see maglev or something like that working but why bother when you have self driving cars which can go in convoy to save fuel and improve aerodynamics whilst eradicating congestion?

It wouldn't do I'd we were all the same, I'm glad that there are people like deadeye who can have their flights of fancy and work to make it a reality.