Key Points
Are driverless cars hurtling around technologys next corner?.
It was the brainchild of a German academic, Ernst Dickmanns, who called his computer on wheels Versuchsfahrzeug fr autonome Mobilitt und Rechnersehen (test vehicle for autonomous mobility and computer vision)..
The most brilliantand sometimes bonkersminds of every generation set out to invent the stuff of peoples science-fiction fantasies, whether flying cars, robots that think for themselves or augmented-reality glasses..
Elon Musk trumpets full self-driving", but Teslas driverless-car technology still requires a driver for oversightand probably will for ages to come..
(His voice was that of a human transmitted by radio.) The Convair, a car with an attachable plane, crash-landed near San Diego in 1947 because its pilot mistook the cars dashboard for the planes and ran out of fuel..
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