Future vehicles

/. had a link to this article: Howstuffworks "How the Toyota PM Concept Car Works". How far away is the future? I remember the Segway was a futuristic method of transportation and the world went "whoopee" when it arrived. Are there really people other than the minority of techno-geeks, myself included, that really find these future vehicles interesting?

I've always found vehicles interesting. In grade school, I would look for books on cars of the future. I remember these books were written in the 1950s and 1960s, and they were talking about flying cars and autopilot vehicles coming in the next 50 years. Where are they? Seems like the industry has gotten all wrapped up in having these monstrous SUV vehicles, that they've forgotten about modernizing our vehicles. Get with it fellas! We can't let all those books from the 1950s be wrong...