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.
Actually, the skyline is Newark, NJ, because that is where the train platform segment was filmed. If only we had a larger budget, we would have edited in the Chicago skyline!
Touche'. Actually, there were some adorable children in the seat in front of the actor on the Amtrak train we shot in, but we had to edit them out because we were not able to gain permission to use their likeness.
From what I can tell, with the exception to the game, every thing was planed on the fly.
What if there was not car at the car share?
What if the train was already booked?
And considering it is game day how likely that the local transit system would be full to capacity?
And what of the cost of the local transit?
The only price we see is $72 for the HS rail ticket.
These are things people want to know when adopting these systems.