All photos are frame grabs from video below.
Imagine if you will: It’s the year 2000, and the whole Jetsons scenario has finally come to fruition. You’re making do with your late-model, mostly-self-driving and -self-flying car, though there are a few remaining buttons to which you must manually attend. Sigh.
You look a bit like Mr. MaGoo, your car is woefully out-of-date, you read the 3-D animated magazine ads and dream of a better life: But cheer up, buddy, the 2001 models are out!
And if you don’t realize just how far automotive improvements have come in the last 100 years, give or take, the Automobile Manufacturers Association has sponsored this animated short to remind you what a century of safety enhancements entails.
Not to mention tomorrow’s urban commuting solutions.
In a recent survey, three out of four viewers couldn’t take their eyes off this film. If, after watching, you find yourself in the majority, check out a closely related animated gem that we ran awhile back, sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute, also produced that same year by John Sutherland and some of the same crew.
Public domain archival footage courtesy of the Internet Moving Images Archive, in association with Prelinger Archives.
from Hemmings Daily – News for the collector car enthusiast http://ift.tt/29Pu2k0
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