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A Collection of Ideas Cars have always been about what could be—new places to go, new things to do. Unlike the train, which first opened up travel across continents, cars are not dependent on a schedule of stops and a system of tracks. They can take a traveler anywhere as long as there’s a road and even some places where there isn’t one. The tradition of cars being about freedom, the open road, and long-distance travel may come to a pause or an end in the next few decades. Internal guidance systems, artificial intelligence, and self-driving mechanisms are all about to become a part of almost every car. Likely, no matter how fun the design team makes a car with interactive avatars

carriage a word that came over from vehicles pulled by horses and was applied to cars in the early years of automobiles; the word describes a car’s body concept cars cars created with the intention to inspire new ideas about car design and mechanics, but not to go into production itself prototype cars cars created with the intention of getting ideas to refine that same car into a production vehicle regulations sets of laws, rules, or other orders prescribed by authority

Some car lovers will miss the smell of gasoline when electric cars take over the market.

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