Can ‘It’ be the future? : Auto Talk
That is ‘It’. Don’t ask me what ‘It’ is. Don’t ask me why ‘It’ is called ‘It’. Don’t ask me what kind of name ‘It’ is. Just know that ‘It’ is ‘It’. Because you need not know more.
All you need to know about ‘It’ is this: ‘It’ can take you anywhere you want. On this earth, that is. From the meanderings of the azure brooks in Amazon forests to the level sands of Kalahari. From the spacious 23 lane freeway in San Francisco to the one way crowded streets of Kolkata. If you still haven’t guessed it, ‘It’ is — to put it bluntly — an automobile.
Only, we are talking about ‘It’ in the year 2079.
Now, if you are wondering how ‘It’ can traverse terrains so diverse, let me remind you, this is ‘It’ we are talking about. ‘It’ has come a long way from the wooden wheels, horse driven wagons to the alloy wheels, fuel guzzling cars of your era. In fact, ‘It’ does not even have wheels. ‘It’ is driven by an anti-gravity propulsion system enabling ‘It’ to float several feet above ground (Recently, a group of ‘It’ developers have claimed of having developed an ‘It’ that can be launched into low earth orbits for short durations of time, but that is too much to be believed, even by ‘It’ standards). Since ‘It’ floats on a cushion of air, ‘It’ can reach speeds several hundred hours per kilometer if required. Also, being compact, ‘It’ is more versatile and maneuverable than even your present day aircrafts. And thus, ‘It’ can travel through different environments with equal speed and ease.
Even though ‘It’ zooms in and out of multiple landscapes at such high speeds, accidents are almost unheard of thanks to the anti-collision system ‘It’ comes loaded with. The anti-collision system consists of sensors that use LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) which constantly update ‘It’ on the obstructions. This, coupled with GPS that constantly notifies ‘It’ of not only ‘It’s own location but also about the location of other ‘It’’S in the vicinity, decentralized traffic with a lot of airspace (remember, ‘It’ does not require roads to determine ‘It’s course) and air bags housed in every conceivable corner of ‘It’, makes accidents and ‘It’ almost mutually exclusive. So much so that insurance companies had to invent new policies for them — covering only natural disasters that cause unforeseen damage, not collisions.
Now since fossil fuels are not in existence any more (I would like to give you due credit for having made this possible), the fuel that ‘It’ uses is hydrogen. Instead of storing ‘It’ in the bulk liquid or gas form, which is extremely dangerous to handle and store (yes, Hindenburg is not forgotten even now), Hydrogen is stored in single-walled carbon nanotubes, making the fuel tank miniscule and light weight. Some newer versions of ‘It’ are powered by miniature nuclear power plants which use the less volatile thorium instead of uranium making ‘It’ to last for decades in just one fill.
Okay. So ‘It’ is Fast and furious but what about durability? Wear and tear is a phrase that ‘It’ is not too fond of. The whole structure of ‘It’ is made up of carbon fiber shells and reinforced steel which makes ‘It’ exceptionally immune to corrosion and unperturbed by what we might call air friction — creep friction is the technical word used.
Holographic projections and accessories completely personalized for the owner lend the last touch of luxury to ‘It’. Something which I’m enjoying completely right now.
Right now. Right now, I’m driving my ‘It’ in your territory in your TIME. You see, spatial dimensions aren’t the only ones ‘It’ can traverse.
— The Pulse72+ Team
