Cars came into global use during the 20th century, and developed economies depend on them. Early car manufacturing involved manual assembly by a human worker. The process evolved from engineers working on a stationary car, to a conveyor belt system where the car passed through multiple stations of more specialized engineers. Starting in the 1960s, robotic equipment was introduced to the process, and today most cars are produced largely with automated machinery.
Coverage[]
Cars are featured in Life After People Documentary as part of general information and were later featured again in Roads to Nowhere and Latinoamerica sin Humanos, both featured the same general information but on the different settings.
Documentary[]
Cars were firstly featured in the Documentary within the timeline of 75 years after people. Gordon Masterton analyze and explain that the abandoned cars will behave differently depending on the environment in which they're left behind. A vehicle in the Mojave Desert can last a long time while a car in Scotland will only last a shorter time due to the salt in the atmosphere within the coastal environment.
The show then reveals the fate of the cars as time passes. Although the tires will have deflated within a few years, their synthetics and rubber will remain intact for centuries longer. The paint deteriorates quickly and flakes away. Rust then corrodes the car's body at an annual rate of 0.005". After 75 years after people, most vehicles will be reduced to skeletons, even in the most forgiving environments. A century later, the vehicles are barely recognizable heaps of metal.
Roads to Nowhere[]
Cars return in the Roads to Nowhere in a timeline segment of 50 years. The main setting this time is in Detroit. It first show the general information when Detroit produced 15 million cars every year before the fate of the cars situated within Detroit. Same as the documentary, inflated tires will be deflated, and again, rubber and synthetics lasts for hundred of years. After the deflated cars tyres, the Detroit climate have reduce cars into skeletons within another 25 years after the 50 years segment. (=~75 years?)
Latinoamerica Sin Humanos[]
Cars within the documentary is set within Latin America. Firstly featured in 1 day after people, after the disappearance of people cars will be forever be stranded within the middle of avenues, and the car horns can no longer be heard. Without people, cities like Sao Paulo no longer seen pollution emitted daily by the cars emitting carbon dioxide. This then cause the atmosphere to be clear for more oxygen as carbon dioxide no longer fills the climate and the atmosphere.
It then shows the fate of the cars within Latin America from 10 year segment when the thousands of cars remained in the streets and avenues are being devoured by rust and vegetation which are enhanced by sea level atmospheric conditions. These conditions are much more aggressive on corrosion and humidity is much higher causing the metal parts of the automobile to be degraded into rust.
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References[]
- ↑ The survivability of the car depends on the environment that were left behind.