Jetsons

Sure, speed and safety are important, but what really plucks our heart strings is technology that makes us feel like we're driving something not even The Jetsons could imagine.

With advanced sensors guarding the blind spot, the backup camera making sure Fido isn’t in the driveway, or touch screens to manage media and apps, cars today are closer to the Jetsons than Flintstones and they need those computer chips to make it happen.

It's the future first envisioned by The Jetsons in 1962, and thanks to developments in AI, it finally seems feasible within the next decade.

And the dash is a bit Jetsons for my taste, but I know Hyundia/Kia infotainment controls are always really good, and who cares about anything but CarPlay and adjusting the temperature anyway?

And while there are others which are perhaps a bit more exciting, many literally were just concepts dreamt up in Hanna-Barbera’s The Jetsons cartoon series in the 1960s – flying cars, robotic help, holograms and smart watches – and brought to life now.

Teleportation and “those tubes from the Jetsons” spring to mind as some of the councillor’s more ambitious ideas (anything resembling a trebuchet has been out of the question since the massacre that occurred in ‘13).

Foreign TV shows for adults are shown in their original versions with subtitles, most cartoons, for example, The Flintstones and The Jetsons were always dubbed, while Family Guy and American Dad!

His final recording session was for Jetsons: The Movie (1990).

Its ultra-modern design included a sculpted latticework exterior, moat, fountains, and after later additions, a Jetsons-like tower.

Unlike its sister show The Jetsons (the two shows appeared in a made-for-TV crossover movie in 1987), the revival programs were not widely syndicated or rerun alongside the original series.