{"id":3404,"date":"2007-12-08T19:25:11","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T00:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/08\/im-still-waiting\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T18:23:05","slug":"im-still-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/08\/im-still-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m still waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the side effects of Catherine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/c-raine.com\/2007\/09\/16\/library-quest\/\">Library Quest<\/a> is that she digs through the sale books. She&#8217;s found a library getting rid of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/\">National Geographic<\/a>s for 25\u00c2\u00a2. September 1969&#8217;s issue, published when I was less than a season old, has a great and hilariously dated article <em>The Coming Revolution in Transportation<\/em>. It&#8217;s all hovercraft and personal transport pods (though none less than the Federal Highways Administration&#8217;s The Rambler cautions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/infrastructure\/future.cfm\">don&#8217;t blame the future<\/a> when we read this article).<\/p>\n<p>My favourite prognosis from the article is this one, on electric cars:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Electric cars should be common within a decade. They will be &#8220;pure&#8221; electrics, if batteries become lighter, more powerful, and longer lasting; otherwise, &#8220;dual-mode&#8221; vehicles\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbattery-powered in town but propelled by gasoline engines on cross-country trips. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It took just a little longer than this, and it sure wasn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gm.com\/\">GM<\/a> who brought the first ones to market, despite this picture of a hybrid Opel from 1969:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/hybrid_opel_1969-national-g.jpg\" alt=\"Hybrid Opel car from 1969 - National Geographic\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the side effects of Catherine&#8217;s Library Quest is that she digs through the sale books. She&#8217;s found a library getting rid of National Geographics for 25\u00c2\u00a2. September 1969&#8217;s issue, published when I was less than a season old, has a great and hilariously dated article The Coming Revolution in Transportation. It&#8217;s all hovercraft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1036,1035,896,1037],"class_list":["post-3404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-suck","tag-1036","tag-gm","tag-hybrid","tag-national_geographic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-SU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}