Source: LA Times

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The air tastes putrid. The traffic is terrible. The engines are loud, the oil-stained roadways ugly and antiquated.

This is Autopia, part of Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland, where kids from around the world come to dream about the future.

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If anyone could get away with defending the toxic odor, it might be Bob Gurr. He designed the original Autopia cars in the mid-1950s, working closely with Walt himself. He’s proud of what they built together.

But today the 92-year-old Disney legend says the polluting motors need to go.

“Get rid of those God-awful gasoline fumes,” he told me.

Disney is finally preparing to do just that. Pure gasoline engines are on their way out.

Read more: Disneyland is ditching gas cars at Autopia. It’s a great first step for Tomorrowland