Well, maybe not.
In celebration of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety‘s 50th anniversary, a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air was crashed into a 2009 Chevrlet Malibu. As you can see from the video below, the results were significantly different from a survivability-perspective.
“It was night and day, the difference in occupant protection,” says Institute president Adrian Lund. “What this test shows is that automakers don’t build cars like they used to. They build them better.”
If you listen to Ray Kurzweil, you’ll believe that we’ll soon get to the point that we can live hundreds of years, power the world completely with solar energy, have computers in our brains and possibly raise the dead… and that’s just what he’s been talking about in the last few weeks. His history as a futurist spans decades and includes predictions that most would agree have become a reality today.
Is he way off base, betting on headline-grabbing predictions in hopes of promoting his documentary, or is he looking at the future with open eyes and simply extrapolating scientific and technological advancements through its trending progression?
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