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This is a very early instance of the idea of having a navigation screen in the middle of your dashboard that shows your current location, and which allows you to enter the coordinates of your desired destination.
Compare this idea with the Camden Speedster from Methuselah's Children, a 1941 novel by Robert Heinlein. The Speedster can drive itself, but you can't actually set a destination.
Here's a picture of my very own auto-navigation system, on my Toyota Camry hybrid:
Now, if somebody would just come out with a system that lets the car drive itself to the destination, that would be great. Hey, what do you know, there's the Google's autonomous self-driving car. Compare to the locatimeter from The Iron World by Otis Adelbert Kline. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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