Is James Bond's electric Aston Martin the beginning of the end for cars in cinema?
Cars chasing cars, dinosaurs chasing cars, aliens chasing cars, superheroes chasing cars; there's no denying that some of the most spine-tinglingly thrilling moments ever committed to film take place in a race for survival behind the wheel of a vehicle.
But as our relationship to cars evolves, is cinema due for a reckoning with the motoring industry? It's not totally without precedent. As recently as 2015, Disney banned depictions of smoking in its films over fears of glamourising tobacco, and as society starts to wake-up to the damage that the motoring industry has done to the climate, could the same thing happen with cars?