A Green Future, But with a shade of dilemma
It won’t be wrong to say that the future we imagined is here!. At least for the people from the 90s, the future seems to be very near or almost approached.
Considering electric cars are now a big deal and also not forgetting one of the most major developments in the automobile sector, the autonomous systems.
The cars now have self-driving capabilities and their systems are just getting smarter with every single update they get. Autonomous technology and electric drive trains in cars is for sure the next big thing, and it is the future that is slowly and slowly unfolding itself as our present.
Of course, it is very beneficial for the future, cars won’t be emitting tonnes and tonnes of carbon dioxide anymore, and would be driving themselves, thereby decreasing the risk of human error.
Don’t scrutinize me for this and say I am going against the greener future.
But thinking of this imagined and near-coming future from the perspective of a hardcore petrolhead, the future honestly seems very disappointing.
Of course, this development fulfills the basic purpose of a car being able to transport people from point A to point B. Any normal car can do that, but what about the journey?
The experience of being able to drive a car, connect to the road, connect to the car, listen to that sweet old internal combustion engine, is what made the automobile industry from just being a transport industry to an art form.
A type of art that only true petrolheads and car lovers understand. Certainly, a self-driving, all-electric car can never replace that feeling. The kind of engines this world has seen till now are no less than a work of art.
Many might say that I am wrong on this one, but not being able to drive a sweet old v6 motor or any internal combustion engine for that matter in the coming future, is certainly a very unsettling prospect for me.
Considering my generation would not get to drive some of the most highly regarded and the most revolutionary cars this industry has ever seen, the colorful canvas of the future rather seems to be repainted in just green.
Certainly, we welcome the cleaner and safer future, but that welcome is accompanied by a big dilemma of losing out on the cars of this age.
What are your views on this?do tell.