ETF Digest
ETF Partners Investment Insights: Transport
Posted
21 July 2017
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Our view of the future, as we grew up, was formed by TV and films featuring cars that drive or fly themselves. Future cities were to be places where vehicles flew freely and quickly through gleaming towers.
As far back as 1964, General Motors introduced its concept car, the Firebird IV, which anticipated handing the car’s controls to an automatic, programmed guidance system and travelling
in comfort and absolute safety at more than twice the speed possible on today’s expressways. This sunny, well-ordered world didn’t happen; but now it is being imagined anew.
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As far back as 1964, General Motors introduced its concept car, the Firebird IV, which anticipated handing the car’s controls to an automatic, programmed guidance system and travelling
in comfort and absolute safety at more than twice the speed possible on today’s expressways. This sunny, well-ordered world didn’t happen; but now it is being imagined anew.