Model T, possibly first self driver.

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Curtis Fesler on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 - 08:07 am:

I was talking to my 95 year old Dad yesterday and he told me a Model T story. On Sunday the family would load up in Uncle Melvin's Model T to fish some of the backwater near the Mississippi River in Mark Twain Country. They world drive down rutted dirt roads and Melvin remarked" I love it because I don't even have to drive". He set the throttle and the car drove itself following the ruts in the dirt road.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tim Wrenn-Monroeville OH on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 - 08:09 am:

How cool is that! :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jason Given - St. Paul, MN on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 - 08:58 am:

Sounds like an early version of Drive by Wire.

Someone should have patented it!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bill Harper - Keene, NH on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 - 09:20 am:

And to think that some people actually complain about being in a rut!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Paul Goddard Farmland, NJ on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 - 09:21 am:

Great story. Thanks for sharing
Curtis


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Chris Landry, Hudson, NH on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 - 09:22 am:

More like Drive by Mire



Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Strange - Hillsboro, MO on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 - 09:42 am:

LOL, Chris! :-O


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