Bug to the future -- VW’s future vision.
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Imagine cars communicating with traffic lights and holographic displays assisting the driver. Will personal transportation be like that in 20 years’ time? Volkswagen seems to think so. The company has even created a website, www.Volkswagen2028.com to show off its vision of the future.
If anyone fancies wasting some of their employer’s valuable resources on a bit of cyber surfing (heck, what else do you do at lunch time?), they’ll find this site is running a short, interactive film of a father telling his son about the dark age of motoring, circa 2008, before looking at the brave new world of the automobile.
And then there’s the implication of how VW saved the planet single-handedly with such radical vehicles as the ‘one’, the ‘ego’, and the ‘room’ (pictured). If nothing else, it’ll be fun to remember this site when 2028 really does come along, to see how far off it was. After all, aren’t we supposed to be wearing silver spandex one-piece suits and traveling around via cold-fusion–powered anti-gravity machines by now?