30 Insane Scenarios About the Future That Might Actually Happen

DRIVING YOURSELF WILL BE PASSÉ—AND CONSIDERED UNSAFE

In 2020, which is just two years away, automated cars will start to become something most people take for granted. By some projections, there’ll be nearly 10 million cars on the road with self-driving features.

The thing that seems so weird and futuristic now will, by the next presidential election, become something that annoys you if you don’t have it. You know how angry you get when you rent a car and it’s an older model without satellite radio? In the next five years, cars that don’t drive themselves will be the hand-me-downs that nobody wants.