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If this was a legitimate prophecy, why were they playing checkers in a driverless car? Shouldn't they have been playing a game on a colored screen? Angry Birds, perhaps? | If this was a legitimate prophecy, why were they playing checkers in a driverless car? Shouldn't they have been playing a game on a colored screen? Angry Birds, perhaps? | ||
==Wherefore art thou, steering wheel?== | |||
Believe it or not, the steering wheel was invented after the car. The first automobile (the Benz Patent-Motorwagen) appeared in 1886, and was guided by a steering tiller. The steering wheel did not make an appearance until 1894. | |||
So William Braham's prophecy that science would progress to the point where cars would no longer need steering wheels...is kind of backwards. | |||
==Timing of the fulfillment== | ==Timing of the fulfillment== | ||