Sometime in the not too distant future, John wakes up in suburban Chicago on a Saturday morning and heads to a White Sox game...in Detroit. Join him on a 300 mile journey to Detroit's Comerica Park as he experiences the transportation options of the future: a neighborhood electric car share program, smart phone ticketing, high-speed rail, and connecting light rail. This clip is brought to you by America 2050 as part of its "A Better Tomorrow" project to visualize America's future communities and transportation systems.
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This video is great, but it mistakenly uses the Detroit skyline in the scene where John is waiting on the platform in Chicago. Also, instead of the fictitious "Detroit Junction," the use of the existing Michigan Central Station or the Amtrak station at New Center would have emphasized the extent to which the infrastructure for high-speed rail is already in place.
The only accurate part of this video was that the high speed train was empty.
Incredibly unimaginative. Also, Americans will never adopt a car sharing program mainstream. You'll likely have electric cars as the only type of car by around 2030 but people will still drive their own primarily even in 2050.