If you believe movies like Looper, the cars of the future will be just like the cars of today, only with some additional gadgets connected to the fuel tank. If you believe most sci-fi movies, we’ll be flying in our cars (2015 and Back to the Future II is right around the corner). Of course, you could find something in the middle like they did at the BBC:
Car companies have recently been telling us what the car of 2020 will be like: autonomous is one word used, electric is another, and it will be connected to the internet too. Sound exciting? It is, but it’s doubtful you’ll find all of this on the forecourt in the next seven years (cars typically get completely redesigned every five to seven years). However, the directions being proposed are a very good starting point to look even further and ask the question: what might the car of 2050 look like?