Flying cars, self-driving cars… This was all once upon a time It was just a dream. While we may not have access to flying cars, there are driverless cars.

Plus, we assume it’s very new, but that’s not exactly the case. In 1971, a driverless car was launched in Britain had been introduced. Let’s look at the working principle and what happens next.

In the news published on the BBC we could see a red Cortina with four doors.

You can see the car from 2.13.

The car drives itself while the man behind the wheel reads his newspaper. He doesn’t even have his foot on the accelerator… Obviously, due to the technological limitations of the period, it was not very similar to today’s self-driving cars.

How did this car work?

Control of the vehicle was provided by cables laid under the road and electrical signals. There were two coils on the front of the car and these coils, coming from a cable buried in the ground, creating a magnetic field. It detected the magnetic field.

The position of the car relative to the cable is detected and sending information through the steering column to keep the car on track.

Actions such as steering, braking, shifting; with electronic systems in the vehicle was managed.

Speed ​​control was provided by an electronic device that controlled engine speed.

HA Patience, project director at the Berkshire Transport and Road Research Laboratory in Great Britain: “Speed ​​of the engine by controlling the frequency is being edited. We have a very simple electronic device that allows you to adjust your speed. Then it checks the number of revolutions and returns to a small loop. It keeps the speed at this level.”

The technology could not be developed due to financial constraints.

These driverless car experiences; Standard Vanguard, Austin Mini, Citroen DS19 It was also implemented in other cars such as.

However, by the mid-1970s, other publicly funded sectors in Britain also suffered from the same financial problems and could not be developed further.

Let’s think of it this way, car enthusiasts: