Disney's Magic Highway - 1958

In 1958 voorspelde Disney hoe de snelwegen van de toekomst eruit zouden zien. Als het sneeuwt warmt het wegdek op, en wordt zo droog. Enorme machines rijden door het land en leggen in één keer een stuk snelweg aan. Geprefabriceerde viaducten worden snel op hun plaats gehangen. Men had toen nog vertrouwen in de techniek. Alleen de files, die had men niet voorzien!

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Disney's
• Magic
• Highway
• 1958

[OldsVistaCruiser]

50 years after this video, some of these innovations have become reality.

We have GPS with traffic alerts, cruise control (although the Interstate system predicted here has a max of 80 mph)

[Micahbedo]

Actually, Walt Disney was a die-hard believer in the Free Market and human ingenuity... hardly sounds "mindless" to me.

[rejectzombie]

i wish

[Zilch79]

My favorite part is 5:35 when the hydrofoils materialize out of nowhere. Awesome!

[VieVentar]

@caterham7jpe We already had tunnels that go underwater and jet turbine powered cars when this film was made.

[chuckbflo]

@caterham7jpe : Except for GPS and decentralization, 98% of this *hasn't* happened. Thank God.

[caterham7jpe]

anyone else totally weirded out that 80% of thats already happend? I mean chrysler made a turbine car already, jet cars still roam Bonneville we have tunnels that go underwater etc etc etc

[neatoauctions]

A vision of an interesting world - where even road-building equipment has tailfins. What the "imagineers" failed to predict was the obese pork-bellies who would inhabit the sterilized dump. Another failing point of the wizz thinkers was their shortsighted view of fully-enclosed passenger compartments. How could ner’-do-wells possibly fire their automatic weapons into occupied homes or businesses through a glass canopy?

All my rust,

Johnny Witchburner(TM)

[dutchbart]

Incredible! Disney did predict some things, just like Jules Verne, that realy did come true!

Wow! He had a creative mind!

[RedWolfSV]

Insert a punch card in a futuristic car? Guess they hadn't envisioned computer operating systems yet. Some of the rest is amazingly accurate.

[robertwmartens]

Definitely a precursor to General Motors' FUTURAMA at the 1964/65 NY World's Fair. The gigantic highway builder was seen there plowing through the Amazon.