Disney's highways of the future

Umm better because it saves little children from being run over and killed in a reversing accident which happens all to frequently.  They are now putting those very cameras in cars to help eliminate that problem.

If only it didn't take more than a simple physics education to realize why so many of these things are absolutely impossible...

Funny how there's no TRAFFIC on any of those roads. One of the great unfortunate shames of the 20th Century is that we didn't realize how much more congestion we would generate by building roads and essentially outlawing transit or walking. This is a failed vision. It's wrought us unhealthy cities, unhealthy lifestyles, urban "mobility" that's congestion-ridden and unavailable to the young, old, poor or invalid, and it has brought our planet to the brink of environmental disaster. There needs to be a third option: I prefer a BETTER reality. One where cars are mere tools to be used rather than taskmasters to which we slave behind; where our cities are built for people rather than machines. 

So disconnected from nature. Heaven forbid anyone experience temperature variations, seasons, wind, wildlife, touching, smelling, etc. 

If you skip the Jetsons fantasy part, the Disney Future of a massive highway system that allows our cities to spread out has become Reality.  Isn't that what we have with the Interstate Highway System and suburban sprawl?  (And pedestrians get about as much attention by many highway engineers as Disney gave to them -- NONE.)

It's always so annoying when imagination is dumped on by small, petty people.

Sorta like the super high we call the "internet".

$123.7 Million to send a load of produce on a rocket to Japan, now that's inflation! 

this would give le corbusier a bigger hard on than an unclad george washington bridge.thankfully this vision is in the past

yes, when they envisioned highways linking nations they forgot three things: terrorism, outsourcing, and immigration. It's interesting to note the things they DID get right, as they are now - the thing with the TV in the car - but not for biz, for entertainment. The large route signs, the displays of traffic problems ahead has been implemented in LA at least. I think it's still accurate to portray women as the main shoppers, though, even if they're earning money outside the home to pay for it.

I prefer reality, I love going faster then everyone and sweirving between cars. With the future way, there would be no where to race but at race tracks and then how the fuck am I suppose to get my racecar there? The future way would be very boring.

Agreed, you need to take these predictions into context - the 50s - when cheap oil and the recent birth of atomic energy promised near limitless amounts of cheap energy would be available long into the future and the more simplified world view following WWII.  That said its not to far off the mark if you transpose what they imagined as a transportation network onto what we have as a communication network...

Fiscal reality stole this version of the future, not the oil companies.  Atomic energy  cannot create the infrastructure shown here.  Regardless, the notion that you can build all of this foolish crap with minimal utilization (no congestion) and without insane maintenance and operating costs is pure fantasy.  Only Disney could imagine something this Dopey.

It's all great until some idiot decides to blow up the sea tunnel or the sidewalk in the sky, or all of them. It would be bedlam to have all these things. Then we have more to worry about.

i prefer sea world.

Geez, everyone's a critic.  Let go of your righteous opinions for a moment and just have some fun.

This way of being lazy and having moving side walks and effortless everything will just give more people excuses to be fat. We would have more obese people than ever before.

Yes Let's destory the past of our cities, Make almost everything unneeded,(hows a tv screen better than a mirror in your car?) to create one big eyesore where everyones fat and lazy and a complete idoit,  bourght to you by GM

Its easy to dream....far harder to make that a reality

I'd prefer that the whole world wasn't paved over.  Even if some of that stuff was possible, imagaine the taxes necessary to build it and keep it going.

Nobody needs to walk more than five feet- Excellent! In order to stay so slim, we'll have bulemia. A motorised toilet will come to you after every meal.

Wow. really.  I love how half the highways are just suspended by nothing.  I'd love a civil eng. figure out how to do that statics problem.  Pretty much all of these ideas would cost so much money its so obsurd =P The government can bearly get enough money to keep pot holes out of the highways, heh.  Now if we had unlimited money and energy, we could talk.  (Oh, watching that bridge-building robot almost made me laugh out loud. "Combining new forms of concrete w/ quick setting ceramic materials the 100 ton machine is supported by the foot thick bridge spanning out tens of yards from the nearest support"  Wow, only if a material that could take that much tension without being sintered and was cheap enough to make all of our roads out of.  I mean, WOW. 

in all honesty, the main thing I like about it and would like to see implemented is the heated roads.  like 50 degrees farenheight would be great, just to keep it from freezing over in the cold WNY winters

Having a high way through every corner of the world? Amm what a great sight, no thanks I will stick to what we have :)

I'm always amused by these old future visions. Regardless of subject matter, the one thing they ALL get wrong is the biggest societal change of last century: The role of women. They are unfailingly portrayed as housewives. 

have to remember that these predictions were based on the idea that Nuclear sources would yeild limtless amounts of energy that could be inefficiently expended on things like heated and air conditioned highways.

Largely based on ATOMIC Energy. The oil companies stole our future.

All in all, not that far off.

Many of these ideas are already done, but optional.  Many others look virtually impossible based on the energy requirements and contemporary energy availability.  Some of these are just cool ideas that would take time, money, and engineering.

I guess it was more important to fund the various little wars than to have better social services.