Extreme Road Trip 2 The Traveler

I ran a poll a few weeks ago on Facebook and 80% of my followers prefer a road trip to flying. I did some research and came up with my Top 5 Road Trips in the United States. I have personally driven parts of four of these trips. My bucket list still contains Yellowstone & Continue reading 'Road Trip!'

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If you took a in the U.S. 12 years ago, there’s a good chance you—or someone you knew—was behind the wheel of a Toyota Camry or Camry Solara.

There’s also a 25 percent chance that car was white, white pearl, or something called lunar mist metallic (yeah, we know). If you’re someone who likes to listen to music while you drive, then you had what were considered options: AM/FM radio, a tape player, a CD player, and maybe even satellite radio. (Though, given that John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change” and Nelly’s “Grillz” were the most popular songs that year, you may have preferred the peace and quiet.) You’d be notching 34 miles a gallon on the highway.To many of us, 12 years ago is a lifetime; that 2006 Camry a relic of an age when cars were neither “smart” nor self-driving, and definitely not as safe. Looking back at it now, it all seems so, well, old. But to technologists and futurists and car developers, 12 years is nothing. And to hear them tell it, 2030 is almost here.“The first iPad is only eight years old,” says Sheryl Connelly, who has been Ford Motor Company’s in-house futurist for nearly a decade.

“Think about that. Think about how the iPad has fundamentally changed our relationship with technology,” Connelly says, citing stories of toddlers trying to swipe to turn the pages of print magazines. “That’s eight years, but 12 years away is really not that far. And that change will be more dramatic than any of us expect it to be.”Trying to predict what the future will look like, then, is in many ways impossible. But to Connelly, it’s all about continuing on our current arc: if x, then y. If this, then that.

And while Uber may be trying, they likely won’t be integrated into our daily lives by 2030. So what technology will? What infrastructure, car advances, and features will make our road trips bigger, better, and more efficient than before? In speaking to futurists, manufacturers, and more, we found out what will actually be on the road in just 12 years—and how it could change the way we travel. It’s ElectricThe road trip of the future will almost certainly be largely gas-free, in large part because Americans want it to be.

Though less than one percent of all cars sold in the U.S. Today are electric, change is coming—and fast: Electric vehicle sales have a 32 percent growth rate annually, and 20 percent of Americans say they are likely to buy an electric vehicle the next time they’re in the market for a new or used car, according to a 2018 survey from AAA; that number is up five percent over 2017.

This is in large part due to factors that are, for all intents and purposes, here to stay: concerns over the environment (cited by 80 percent of survey respondents), lower long-term costs (67 percent), and “cutting-edge technology” (54 percent). It makes sense: In the mid-2020s, electric vehicles will become more affordable than gas or diesel cars in most countries, according to a trend report from.And companies that haven’t traditionally been electric-first are becoming so. General Motors, the largest American car manufacturer, says it will have at least 20 electric models on the market by 2025, reports the, and the company has been vocal about its plans to go all-electric in the near future. Ford Chairman Bill Ford more than doubled the company's research budget for electric cars to $11 billion through 2022, and Ford will release 13 “electrified” models over the next five years. Volkswagen to build electric versions of all its 300 models by 2030; starting in 2019, Volvo will only make electric or hybrid cars. Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin have a similar approach.

Your Car Will Be Made of Plants (Or At Least, a Lot of It Will Be)Going gas-free isn’t the only way your car will be better for the environment come 2030. Already, companies are turning to the natural world for inspiration and eco-friendly design: Last year, a team of researchers in the Netherlands made from bio-composite materials like flax and sugar beets, and today, U.S. Car companies have whole divisions dedicated to sustainability.Ford, for one, has developed a partnership with Heinz to turn tomato peels into center console storage bins, and with Jose Cuervo to use agave waste from tequila production in wiring harnesses and brackets. Recycled pop bottles are made into carpets and seat linings, and cotton shoddy—used to make blue jeans—is recycled and turned into sound insulation. “In the future, I dream of helping make cars completely from renewable materials, inspired by things learned from the natural world,” says Debbie Mielewski, Technical Leader of Materials Sustainability at Ford.

There Will Be Less Actual Driving When You’re “Driving”By 2030, sitting back and eating a bowl of Rice Krispies will be par for the course—even if you’re the “driver.”Already, fully autonomous driving is creeping into our daily lives: Waymo, Google’s self-driving car project, an autonomous ridesharing service in Phoenix later this year. Uber purchased a fleet of 24,000 SUVs from Volvo that it will outfit with sensors and self-driving software. Ford, too, about its plans to roll out a commercial self-driving car “at scale” in 2021, with the vehicle aimed at delivery and ride-hailing services.To be sure, there have been setbacks: In March 2018, a self-driving Uber struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona.

Later that same month, Tesla’s Autopilot function was active when a with its Model X occurred; in May 2018, a Tesla sedan with Autopilot on a parked police car in Laguna Beach, California.Both companies have said they will continue to refine their partial autonomy functions, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has long been a public advocate for self-driving cars. “When used correctly, it is already significantly safer than a person driving by themselves and it would therefore be morally reprehensible to delay release simply for fear of bad press or some mercantile calculation of legal liability,” Musk wrote in 2016 in hisWhile the discussion around infrastructure, governance, regulations, data, privacy, and security will only widen as the cars become more popular, by 2030, then, it’s not unrealistic to think that autonomous vehicles will be more norm than novelty. You’ll be spending time in the car in a totally different context, akin to sitting around a dinner table, talking, or even watching the together while the Rockies roll by, says Connelly. Others agree.Come 2030, even that touchscreen will disappear. In its place?

Holographic screens.“A road trip in 2030 will look like you want it to look—literally,” says Bernhard Weidemann, spokesperson for autonomous driving at Mercedes-Benz, which has already developed an interior seating concept with. “No matter what the landscape outside of your car looks like, you can slap on a pair of virtual reality glasses and drive through Berlin in 1900, along the coast even though you are in the middle of the continent, or through a. The car will do the driving for you, and you can make noise-protection walls or dull landscapes turn into anything of your pleasing.” The Changing Face of the Gas Charging StationAfter the first gas station opened in St. Louis in 1905, business boomed along with a nationwide thirst for oil: by 1994, there were nearly 203,000 gas stations around the country, reports. Then came the drop: By 2013, that number had shrunk by 25 percent, thanks to an increase in land value, a change in fuel standards, and the growth of stores with gas stations, like Sam’s Club, Costco, Walmart, and Kroger.

(Unsurprisingly, some of those same stores are going electric today: will install vehicle-charging stations at 100 Walmarts in 34 states by 2019, and EVgo, the country’s largest fast-charging network, has a of stations at Whole Foods and Rite Aid.)Expect to see the distance between gas stations—what remains of them, anyway—become greater, as public charging networks and car companies lay claim to areas just off major thoroughfares and main roads. Many like ChargePoint, Blink, and eVGo are operated by independent contractors, and work for a number of cars across brands, but several companies have invested in their own exclusive charging stations: Porsche, whose is slated to arrive in 2019, to install 500 fast chargers at dealerships and highway locations across the U.S. By the end of 2019, and Tesla, the American carmaker dedicated to electric vehicles, says they are rolling out so-called “Superchargers” every week: they’ve now got more than 10,000 chargers at 1,200 Supercharger stations, where you can fully juice up your car in 30-60 minutes.

(On Tesla’s Model 3, marketed as a car for the masses, this charge will get you 220 miles on the cheaper battery and 310 miles on the more expensive one.) There are also thousands of “Destination Chargers” at hotels, restaurants, and parking garages designed to charge over a longer period of time: there’s one at the Dacotah Ridge Golf Course in Morton, Minnesota, for example; another at the Chiricahua Desert Museum in Rodeo, New Mexico. The BestsStill, because charging takes more time than traditionally filling up your tank, it can mean you’ll be slowing down and experiencing those “stops” in a new way. Or, you might plan to build in a charge in a town you really want to see.

Consider it a, but with a car instead of a plane. Hubs pop up around charging checkpoints, too, as do new communities.“Even if we aren’t planning to meet up with other Tesla drivers, it invariably happens that we spend some time chatting with other drivers when we plug in at a Supercharger on a road trip or when finding a plug at our destination.

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Back when we drove combustion cars, conversations like this never happened at gas stations,” say New Jersey-based physicians Vivianna and Peter Van Deerlin, who own three Teslas—a Model S, a 2010 Roadster, and a Model 3. “But when we pull up to a Supercharger, it’s common that other Tesla owners get out of their car to greet us and chat; sometimes we even grab a meal together. Sometimes we stop to Supercharge even when we don’t need to, just to meet other owners.” Your Car Will Be RoomierRemember those days of sitting three across in the backseat, with a cooler wedged between your feet? Though the auto industry has beaten this by designing cars with more storage, the cars of the future will be smaller—and do more with what they’ve got.

After all, batteries and electric engines take up significantly less space than traditional internal combustion engines, which means your car could conceivably have a rear and front trunk (Tesla does, though it’s regrettably named the latter a “frunk”). All of the mechanisms you currently use to control the car and its components—air conditioning, GPS—will soon be gone in autonomous models, too, resulting in even more space to swivel, recline,. Trust us: You’ll be clamoring for the back seat. Touchscreens Are So 2018Over time, the controls we’ve used to adjust and maintain conditions in and outside the car have gradually become more centralized, to the point where manually rolling up the windows seems like something that belongs in the Stone Age. Buy a new car today, and temperature, parking, and you-name-it are all controlled via a central dash touchscreen in the car, and an app outside of it.

(Tesla’s app, which allows you to pre-warm or cool the car, or unlock the vehicle remotely from anywhere in the world to allow someone else to drive it, is an extreme example.)Come 2030, even that touchscreen will disappear. In its place? Holographic screens that function like a touchscreen, but hover in the air instead of appearing as a control pad.

BMW, for one, its HoloActive Touch system at the International Consumer Electronics Show in 2017, and says the tech will be in its future cars. Want to change the song, or make a phone call? Just “tap” the virtual control surface, which emits a pulse that then activates the function.Some car companies are even leaning less toward touch, and more toward voice: Ford, for one, has to expand, so that you can do everything from figure out where to stop for a cheeseburger on to (oops) turn off the heat in your house—all without raising your voice or lifting a finger. It Will Be Easier to Get Lost (If You Want)Oh, the irony: the smarter a car gets, the “dumber” or more spontaneous it allows us to be, says Connelly. When it comes to road trips, spontaneity is a big piece of that pie.