From 1956: A future vision of driverless cars

w we got to slow down slow down so much traic cuts the FL down till they bring the highways up to date you can bet your high compression we're going to be late call say Poor Dad too bad we're stuck to Lo yuck yuck while we're waiting around sing in the Blues turn on the radio for Highway news Ruth 302 yeah it's hard to get through oh 45 you'll never arrive no route 509 you can't go wrong they're Bumper to Bumper but they're moving along hey I wonder what we'd hear if I'd turn on the switch and we driving along in 1976 hello Tower this is Firebird 2 304 Firebird 2 34 how are things on the safety Auto way Tower to Firebird 2 Tower to Firebird 2 all trans moving in normal pattern fb2 to Tower we're heading for Chicago please route us through over Roger F2 view the screen map shows your location within our control Zone you have your choice of two routes Green Line Mark scenic route Red Line shorter route we're on vacation who wants to fly yeah that means green I'll tell the guy Firebird to Tower we'll take the green Roger check your fueling engine check fuel supply 3/4 full good for 662 Mi or 6 and 1/3 hours gas turbon compressor 31,000 RPM gas turban transmission 26,500 RPM turbine Inlet temperature 1450° turbine exhaust temperature 350° we're all set for auto control Roger Firebird 2 move to electronic control strip in center lane synchronized meure speed and direction check I'll tune speed first now our tun direction we're coming in on the beam dad well done Firebird 2 you're now under automatic control hands off steering here we go on the highp speed Safety Lane ah this is the life safe cool comfortable mind if I smoke a cigar oh not with this wonderful air conditioning hey you want some ice cream or a cool drink orange juice please for me too I'm going to go for the ice cream thank you here hey there's a fibered one the original gas terman car runs pretty smooth for an Oldtimer here's our East North interchange the safe easy way to make a turn n we got to slow down slow down Mr Sun is just about to go down hey Mr to where do we where do you suggest that we relax for the night okay Firebird I'll put you on the beam the sunset in a honey and the hostess is a dream good evening modern Travelers Won't You Be Our Guest we have pushed B and living at its very best there's automatic sleep control in every bed and our predigested food is cooked by infrared okay okay we like what you say Mr to take a Roger Firebird I'll swing you to the right hands on steering Firebird good night come on let's go

Channel: CBS Sunday Morning

Views: 152,026

Keywords: driverless, cars, science, technology, future, futuristic, vision, motorama, general, motors, show, video, cbs, news

Id: F2iRDYnzwtk

Length: 8min 55sec (535 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 19 2014