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The future of transportation

New ideas and technologies changing the way we move
  • Still of interactive timeline of car accidents

    Self-driving cars are coming, and the technology promises to save lives

    Car accidents could be a thing of the past if self-driving cars take over the roads. But researchers are still questioning what the future holds
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    Industrial designers predict the future of transportation in 100 years

  • 50 year train split

    Industrial designers predict the future of transportation in 50 years

  • Compressed air car

    Time travel: take a peek at the future of transportation - in pictures

    Guardian readers show off their sketches and designs of cars, spaceships and more
  • tTwist grip gear motorcycles

    Are you the future of transportation? Send us your sketches and designs

    If you’re an inventor at heart, we want to see your ideas for what planes, trains, cars, bikes and boats might look like 50 to 100 years from now
  • A Toyota self-driving car prototype on the Metropolitan Expressway in Tokyo

    From driverless cars to jetpacks: meet the tech innovators reshaping transit

  • 140x84 trailpic for Martin Rocket Promotional Video

    Martin Aircraft plans to launch a jetpack in 2016 – video

  • 140x84 trailpic for 151112ELIOMOTORS

    Elio Motors to roll out a three-wheeled car – video

  • XTI Aircraft

    XTI designs business jets to take off and land vertically – video

  • Next: autonomous electric pods designed for public transportation – video

  • Into thin air: XCOR wants to take people into space – video

  • An autonomous self-driving vehicle picks up people during a demonstration at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore October 12, 2015. Singapore unveiled its public transport future on Monday, and it was a vision of passengers commuting in driverless buses along roads and freeways populated by platoons of autonomous trucks following a single driver.   REUTERS/Edgar Su

    Still no flying cars? The future of transit promises something even better

    From driverless cars to environmentally friendly vehicles, here are a few ways that technology promises to revolutionize the transportation industry
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