If they don't start really maintaining the roads properly, everyone will have no choice but to drive 4x4's and I don't mean those stupid Chelsea tractor types.
Big stinking diesel block and great knobbly tyres that will chew up everything in it's way That'll stuff up the climate control freaks.
Yup, wonder if he's also the usual type of German car driver that like to get right up my exhaust to force me out of the way. That attitude and those tyres are a lethal combination, usually for someone else.
Certainly is, this is certainly a case of science fiction becoming fact.
Star Treks' sliding doors and communicators.
Isaac Asimov's robots (maybe not the first but the most influential)