The History of Driverless Cars.

Driverless cars come in two categories; autonomous and automated. The difference lies in its ability to be controlled by something or whether it has self-governance.

Driverless cars really do belong in what I imagine as the world of the future, alongside robot butlers and a Windows Operating System that doesn’t crash.

However, it seems Driverless or autonomous cars aren’t actually that far off, with some companies even releasing fully functioning, semi-autonomous cars.

Now, this does excite me; who doesn’t love the idea of jumping in your car and sitting back as it travels you across the country to wherever you’re heading? But how far away are we actually from the dream?

What steps have we already reached, and what’s to come?

Well, that’s what we’re here to find out; below, you’ll see a timeline of these achievements.

First we have to look at the pioneers in this automotive field, pushing the boundaries, trying to reach an otherwise impossible dream.

The 1920s saw inventors take their first test run with the “linrrican Wonder”, debuted Houdina Radio Control, it was a radio-controlled driverless car and was shown traveling through a traffic jam in New York City.

The controlling came from a second car directly behind sending radio impulses which were received by an antenna and sent the signals to circuit-breakers that controlled small electric motors to direct the car’s movement.