I know local lady that put her drivers license into an ATM. It cost the bank $18,000 to get it repaired.
I've lived with 40% dexterity for several decades. And I came to believe that the main design feature of those things was the inconvenience I had to go through to replace my cards. I won't tell how many cards those things swallowed because I didn't have the pinch strength to remove it after a transaction.
So I started using a countermeasure--a spring open, bent jaw, needle nose pliers. And when the card slides out, there I am like crab on a chicken liver! Now I consistently win that biomechanical argument, or--granted-- in my case, it might be a biomanical argument because I don't like to lose. The bank recycles cards well before I have to replace them now. I recommend such pliers to anyone with compromised dexterity due to age, or other causes.
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For anticipated future use. You'll insert your government-issued travel permit , and it'll interface with ignition/injection/GPS to make sure you operate within the proper areas and parameters.
I think it will be like this. Cars -- private vehicles of any type -- will not be allowed in cities, or even in the suburbs. You will be forced to park at a distant Park and Ride, and take rapid transit into the city. Why? Too much noise, too much pollution, too much gas consumption, too much traffic, too much jammed streets.
The trends is slowing moving toward pedestrian malls in large cities, and will do so more and more.
Rapid transit will have facilities to carry your groceries, your shopping goodies, etc., out to the 'distant' Park and Ride. Much of it will be light rail. And that is interesting, for we got away from street cars for so long, but now look -- every major city has light rail transportation from the suburbs. Cities like Denver have express trains that zoom you into downtown very quickly. On city streets, there will be street cars, not train systems, but single cars, or two cars at most. But lots of them.
ALL transport to/from municipal airports will be by light rail. And probably from train and bus stations, too, which will all be located FAR out of the city.
Motorcycles will be prohibited, and even bicycles may be. Probably, in fact.
When? Within 50 years. But it has been showing up for decades, as cities like Denver, Albuquerque, Toledo and others, convert city streets to walk ways. Denver did it long, long ago when it shut down the main drag, 16th street -- where we kids used to drag race, and drag for girls!! Albuquerque did it 20 years ago with 4th street, and may soon do it again with downtown Central Avenue. That is what I would recommend.
Light rail transit systems may could return Detroit to a viable city, if they were handled right. Downtown pedestrian malls are the wave of the future. The car is not.
Leeds, Yorkshire, has had a pedestrianised City Center for over 30 years, and the ability to actually drive inside the middle is somewhat restricted. They have a free bus that links some of the main car parks round the edge and drops you off at the shops, office or rail station. There's a park and ride, but it's insignificant compared to York (the one 22 miles from there) where it's on an industrial scale. You can dump the car for free and pay for the bus to get right into the middle (it's cheaper than the normal bus fare).
Gent in Belgium does very similar, where it's nice to be able to wander around the medieval town without worrying about being run over. There are plenty of examples.
I think you may have to get used to it in the future.
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