When makers of the film Back to the Future II in 1989 envisaged urban transport in 2015, they thought cars would fly and skateboards would hover.
EUobserver would not be the first to point out that the film did not get everything right.
But that does not prevent us from dreaming up future scenarios.
Leaping ahead 34 years to 2050 - eight years after Marty McFly and Doc Brown's Delorean - is potentially a very different picture of how people will move around.
Whether ...
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