15 Hilarious Predictions About the Year 2020 Made Long Ago

All roads will become tubes.

If you’re sick of asphalt roads and all the potholes that come with them, then you’ll wish Popular Mechanics was right about this 1957 prediction for the 21st century.

In an article, the magazine predicted that every road and street in America will be “replaced by a network of pneumatic tubes,” and explained how cars would only need enough power to get from your home to the nearest tube.

Then, by the calculations of a Honeywell engineer, “they will be pneumatically powered to any desired destination.”