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Thursday
Mar112010

Automobiliac Video of the Week: Disney's Magic Highway

In 1958, Disney created this fascinating and creative film to showcase what the highways of tomorrow might be like.  While some of the infrastructure notions are quite far fetched, a surprising number of the car-centered innovations have actually come to fruition.  In the late 1950s, the future must have seemed so boundless with possibility.  If only we could recapture that optimism and open-mindedness in today's cynical, pessimistic, and short-sighted age. I want cantilevered skyways!