*Electric Cars

There are two main types of electric cars; Plug-in Hybrids and electric cars. Plug-in Hybrids are cars that run on both electricity and gasoline. They help reduce the greenhouse gas emission by only using gas on longer trips. Like going to the store is a relatively short trip for most people, so the car would use electricity instead of gas. If you go on a long road trip, then your car would use gasoline as fuel. These changes do help in the global warming problem, but it’s impact is rather small than using a full electric vehicle like electric cars. On the other hand, electric cars are cars that have a rechargeable battery built within them acting as a fuel source. No matter where or how long you use the car, it will always be powered by electricity. Meaning that this car is 100% emission free. Everything is powered by and with the help of electricity from car screens to air conditioning systems. If an electric car is out of electricity, there are always free outlets to plug your vehicle back in at public and workplaces. Basically electric cars are friendly to the environment. Using electricity as a main fuel source for the most popular form of transportation leaves behind no traces of gases like Carbon Dioxide which damage our Earth’s atmosphere. Once humans switch to electric cars, it may pave the way for other forms of transportation to convert to electricity.

*Self Driving Cars

A self driving car is essentially a car that doesn’t require humans to be manually driving it. Using softwares, signals, and a 360 degree camera, a autonomous car could drive without a human being behind the wheels. Though fully automated cars are still in the works, there are high tech cars infused with systems that could potentially be in self driving cars. Most of the big car companies like Ford, Tesla, and Uber are investing in these types of cars. There are so many good qualities that come from this new type of cars, but there are also some disadvantages coming along. You’ll see what I’m talking about shortly.

Advantages

Over 90% of accidents in driving are caused by some form of human error, like drunk driving or being under the influence of certain substances. Driver-less cars won’t have anyone behind the wheel, so in theory the rate of motor accidents will drop drastically. And that’s going to help the economy in different ways.

Self driving Cars provide equity. There are people in our world with disabilities that limit them to being able to drive properly. Like some people are too nervous when behind the wheel, or people that have really poor eyesight. Since the cars drive themselves, these people could travel in these types of cars alone without worries hanging over them.

Autonomous cars could save human passengers time. These cars use media that gives them up to the minute updates on traffic routes. SO the car could choose the safest, fastest, and most clear route to get to the destination.

Disadvantages

The technology in cars can be hacked, infected, and be consumed by malware. This could cause cars to drive crazy and that could lead to an accident. It could also render the car useless after the virus destroyed the tech on self driving cars.

The softwares can encounter uncertainty while in driving mode. A car could come face to face with a big decision. Like on one side of a road there is a big ditch, but on the other side there’s a human walking or standing still. The car would be forced to choose, and it may choose wrong if a human doesn’t interfere.

There are probably more advantages and disadvantages to driving cars. But as long as humans and inventors try their best to perfect the vehicles, our streets would be much safer, faster, and more accessible in the coming future.

*Space Travel

Space travel is a phenomenon that is about how humans could travel in space. It has happened before with the Apollo moon missions. But this is a vastly unique idea. Some people imagine space hotels where people could stay as a vacation, or we could potentially colonize mars in the coming centuries. We could turn Mars into Earth if we tried. Plants feed on carbon dioxide, and let out oxygen. There’s so much carbon dioxide on Mars that somehow getting a plant there could possible turn the whole planet into a mini Earth. Currently scientists are working on different prototypes of spacecraft, but it may take years to make this idea a reality.

*Conclusion

Who knows if space travel will become reality? Who knows if self driving cars would benefit humanity as much as we thought? Who knows if it isn’t too late to switch to the electric cars to save the environment? We can only wonder about the answers to these questions. But one thing's for certain, whatever challenges come up in the future of transportation, it will be up to humanity to decide what happens.