Franchising, retail, business
17/06/2016
In the near future – as cars are inevitably replaced by self-driving electric pods, and human beings gradually lose the use of their legs and their teeth as they become overweight adult-babies, saturated with social media and sucking on protein shakes as they’re wheeled around by personal robot butlers – in this near future, race circuits will become very important to you and me.
Because car enthusiasts like us – people who insist on actually driving old BMWs and Caterhams just for fun – we won’t be allowed to drive on public roads any more. Humans will only contaminate the perfect hive-mind of those 200mph pods, so manual driving on the road will become outlawed as well as outmoded.
Instead, we’ll be relegated to old circuits to carry out our antiquated pastime, in the same way that greyhound racing began in the open fields and green forests of medieval England, and now it’s reduced to tatty oval stadiums on the outskirts of Doncaster. Sad, I know, but I’m afraid we face the same fate (apart from the mechanical rabbits).
Fonte:http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/features/opinion/mark-walton/mark-walton-on-franchising-the-nurburgring-car-june-2016/