Driverless cars; a ban on diesel and petrol car sales by 2030; severe congestion. All these things are making it difficult to predict what private transport will look like in 20 years. I guess (readers can Google this) that the ability to hop in a car and go where you like when you like started in the mid 30s as the car became more affordable and popular, so it will have had it's 100 years of fame to be replaced by what? I have always liked the idea of driverless cars - it combines the flexibility of the aforementioned with the luxury of being able to make use of the time spent travelling, the sort of thing currently only afforded to company execs with a chauffeured vehicle.
I can't see public transport ever replacing the private car except in large cities or along urban transport highways e.g. London-Birmingham despite the talk. I can, however, foresee that low cost affordable electric vehicles such as e-bikes/scooters will gain in popularity when they become safer, practical and more prevalent (and thereby gain in popularity). We probably need to re-boot the Sinclair C5.
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