I share your sentiment about the joy of driving, especially with manual transmission cars. Learning to drive at a young age and mastering the clutch is a valuable skill passed down through generations. It's essential to cherish these experiences and traditions.If you're interested in exploring more about cars and related topics, you might find some insightful discussions on [shipvehicles.com]. It's always fascinating to stay informed about the latest trends and developments in the automotive world.

Worst case scenario, it would be a valuable mueseum peice.

Is a horse and buggy valuable today?

I am with you on this topic. I drive a car with a manual trans and hang on to my old Honda motorcycle because it still has carburators. I think many poeple still love to control their vehicles. What may happen is the internet will at some point, integrate virtual reality headsets into communications so one can feel very present in a home, meeting, vehicle or the like anywhere there is another computer aided camera. Making travel less necessary. What gets me is that people that don't wish to drive already have taxis, Uber, pubilc transportation without the need to purchase a vehicle. Right now I don't see the need for self driving vehicles, but what do I know? When I was young I thought a slide rule was all the computer I needed.

Have you ever seen the movie 'Sleeper" by Woody Allen? A sci-fi spoof where robots do everthing for humans.
What I want to see are more care modeled like the lovely art deco styles of the 1920s. European models were truly amazing.
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Umm if you have never replaced a clutch, you just haven't driven that particular car far enough yet. it is considered to be a wear item, but if I have misconstrued your meaning , sorry. I have been drving clutch cars all my life. and they just wear out. now if you are saying you have never replaced one from abuse well that's great. my tow vehicle has almost three hundred thousand miles on it, and I think the clutch might have been done once.
and if you have the money to burn to buy a car and store it, it is hard to predict what will hold or add value. itilian exotcs maybe, supercars maybe. has to be limited production cars otherwise too many won't have much value. as a car guy I think there will always be a place for car hobbies. but think about it, who wouldn't want to have a flying car !!! lol

I feel sorry for future generations period.

In 50 years that would be the least of our problems

I think in fifty years internal combustion engines will probably hopefully be outlawed. Maybe rich guys will be able to race them on tracks, but that's it. I think people will always be able to drive cars as a throwback hobby. I love cars, but i don't over romanticize driving in a modern city. It's not fun and it's a collosal waste of time and productivity. Change is awesome. Embrace it.

First vehicle driven was an Allis-Chalmers tractor with steel wheels and the next was a 1927 Oakland sedan (see it in the center of picture below).

One of my uncles began purchasing the most unique automobile of the year in 1950. He would drive each of them until properly broken in, then dismantle and store them. He did this until 1985. He began selling them off. He made a small fortune, moved to Las Vegas, and promptly lost it all.

I suggest to you that driving will not disappear for a long, long time and storing one away now would probably be a good investment (depending on the choice you make). Along with this suggestion comes a bit of advice. Do not move to Las Vegas. Do not gamble away your fortune.

By the way, the uncle in question (Leroy) is the one riding my back in lower center of the picture.

I can't wait for autonomous vehicles.

Less congestion, less commuting time, less accidents, less fatalities, less pollution.

Municipalities will have to do actual police work instead of revenue enhancement and insurance will have to adjust down to reflect the reduced risk.

Non-autonomous vehicles will take their places in museums and on back roads and free the highways to be the efficient pathways they ought to be.

Philistines and troglodytes can get onboard or be left behind, this is the future.
No one laments the loss of the rotary phone, the steam engine, or fabric planes.

Time moves forward.
Cars are dinosaurs, and if they can't evolve they'll die.

So wish the automatic. Thing would catch up over here I so can't get my head around a manual gear

Wouldn't matter because the car would be dead. A machine with that many moving parts has to be used.

Although, I am aware of the futuristic vision presented, Seldom have such futuristic visions actually coem tp pass as predicted. As someoen who is legally blind, I wish tansportation were made as easy as predicted.

BTW, until my vision stated to go when I was 29, I drove a manual transmission. It was fun, but now when i ride public transit, I can listen to audio books and my travel tiem is used to better purpose. So, there are advantages and pluses that come into play, and it woudl nto beentirely missignout on things lost.

I do think that older cars tht have to be actually driven will still be allowed on the raod, but gettign a driver's license will become harder and require a lot more skill than in the past. Most liek tryign to get a driver's license in Japan (it's very difficult). This woudl be more for imporved safety to make sure the manual drivers are almost as safe as the diverless cars.

Every regulatory standard adopted so far has only applied to vehicles manufactured after the standard was instituted. There are a number of cars on the road that don't meet current requirements.

Actually, there are other forces at work that will largely displace automobiles. ET3 (Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies) and Musk's Hyperloop will come into existence, I believe. When they do they will largely replace the airline, trucking, shipping, and automotive industries because they will shrink the earth by many factors (ET3 can achieve speeds in excess of 4K MPH). So there's that. Presently, yes, autonomous cars will probably replace human controlled cars and it's likely that, in the supposed interest of safety, humans will be removed from the equation since human error, at the point where autonomous cars can function without accident. Humans will then be the most dangerous things on the road. I have mixed feelings about this as I live in CA and love my car. I also see the value in moving forward. I'm disgusted with the tremendous waste of tiime and money surrounding High-Speed Rail.

I am not sure a “modern” vehicle would survive the test of time. Goods used to be engineered to last. The current design criteria is engineer to fail within a specific time period.

Well Trumpty Dumpty is having his evil EPA lower emission standards so who knows?

All your rubber & platic will have crumbled and the engine most likely seized. These things are made to be used! Oh, and infested with mice, no doubt.