[TeamMCS]

It's amazing to see these old videos. The roads were busy than I expected, I thought cars were incredibly expensive back then? (not that they aren't now).

In 60 years time when we're all driving hover cars like the Jetsons imagine how much footage they'll have of us. Dashcams everywhere

[SilverBirch]

About 5 million cars in 1960s vs over 30 million now. But that journey done today would be practically all on the M4, a 3 lane uninterrupted motorway, so capacity has massively increased.

[inglor_cz]

Cars were already mass-produced 60 years ago and, compared to contemporary cars, rather simple. (No electronics, no airbags etc.) So they couldn't have been that expensive.

Also, parking was mostly free, no congestion duties when driving into London... IDK if there were taxes on gasoline and how high.

[Tade0]

Depends on the country. In Italy there's still to this day a tax on gasoline originally imposed to finance the Italo-Ethiopian war in 1935.

Naturally that wasn't even the last tax of this sort, the latest addition being from 2012.

[ljlolel]

And before the ‘70’s oil embargo

[kcplate]

> In 60 years time when we're all driving hover cars…

Don’t get your hopes up. In the seventies we were promised personal jet packs by now.