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Clunkers & cars of tomorrow – People may look like their dogs, but they IDENTIFY with their cars (especially their old ones) and have a hard time saying goodbye to them, even when the government institutes something like the Cash for Clunkers program. And maybe your NEXT car should go to driving school (instead of you).

With dogs it’s friendship, but with cars, it’s anthropomorphism: the tendency to ascribe human attributes to an inanimate object. PhysOrg.com quotes psychologist Norbert Schwarz as saying, “Everyone knows someone with a beat-up old car that they just can’t bear to get rid of, even as the car becomes unreliable and begins to act with ‘a mind of its own.'”
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Two good things to know when you get in your car: windshields don’t give us skin cancer anymore and facial fractures from car crashes appear to be decreasing, most likely due to design improvements in newer vehicles. But none of this helps prevent the biggest cause of accidents: road rage.
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Trade it in on a red one WITHOUT buying a new car! – We may someday wear clothes that will make us invisible. Did you know that, in the future, you may ALSO be able to instantly change the color of your car?

Bored with your old car but can’t afford a new one? Want to show support for your favorite team during the season? In the future, you may be able to change the color of your car to black and gold (or red and white) in seconds.
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Tires from soy flour & NEW CAR BATTERIES – At the recent Detroit auto show, desperate car companies displayed their new models to a largely bored crowd. The only thing that caught people’s interest was the new electric car, the Chevy Volt. If the car companies survive, the only thing that will save them is innovation, such as helping the environment by making car parts out of biodegradable materials and by inventing more powerful car batteries.

Cars may be made from cocoanuts in the future. Researchers are trying to bring industry to Third World countries by identifying a variety of low-cost products that can be manufactured from coconuts in poor coastal regions. Their latest idea? Use coconut husks in automotive interiors.
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