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#If the prophecy was written down, why did it change significantly over time?

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In the Laodicean Church Age book, William Branham says, “Now let me say this. Can anyone prove any of those visions wrong? Were they not all fulfilled?”  Almost 70 years after 1933, we now have the benefit of hindsight in our ability to confirm the accuracy of these prophecies.

==Changes in the prophecy over time==

[[Image:1957 driverless cars paleo-future big.jpg|thumb|250px|Newsweek Magazine – December 17, 1956]]

Because the prophecies were written down, each retelling should have been consistent through the years.  However, this is not the case as initially this prophecy is only about egg-shaped cars (1953 - 1957).  After this, the cars are remote-controlled (1958) with a glass roof and no steering wheel, with a family inside (1960) playing cards or checkers. The bumpers had sensors and the car was controlled by radar and magnets (1961).  Finally, in the Church Age Book (CAB), the car has a plastic bubble-top.

==Newspaper ads and TV shows of a driverless car pre-date the first time the vision was told==

*1953: Egg shaped automobiles <ref> I said, "Just before that time comes, that automobiles...They'll look like an egg. They'll be shaped. That's a vision. Be something on the shape of something like that." And that's the way they'll be just before the rapture. (March 26, 1953, Jeffersonville, Indiana) </ref>

*1961: Egg-shaped car with an American family inside playing cards, while radar controls the car. <ref> Now, the fifth thing. "Science will progress in such a way until they will make a car that will not have to be guided by a steering wheel, and the cars will continue to be shaped like an egg until the consummation," the end time. I seen American family going down the road in a broad way, riding in a car with their backs turned towards where the wheel should be; looked like they were playing checkers or cards. And we got it. It's on television. "Popular Science"--"Mechanics," rather, all have it; we got the car. It's controlled by remote control by--by radar. They won't even have to have any steering wheel in it. Just set your dial like this--like you dial your phone--your car takes you right on to it, can't wreck nor nothing. No other cars--the magnet keeps the rest of them away from you. See? They got it. Oh, my. Think of it. Predicted thirty years before it happened. (August 6, 1961, Jeffersonville, Indiana)</ref>

*1964: Egg-shaped automobile on a highway with no guide, with a family inside playing checkers. <ref> I said, "Such progress will take place!" I said, "I see automobiles looking like an egg, going down the street. There is cars go down the highways, with some kind of a control, they don't have to guide it. I seen an American family playing checker in the back of a car." They've got the car right now, if they just had the highways to put it on. The little Volkswagen is a perfect egg, just exactly, and it's all the other cars. (March 21, 1964, Denham Springs, Louisiana) </ref>

*1964: Egg-shaped driverless automobile, with a family playing checkers or cards at a table inside. <ref>  And now, it also said, "And it shall come to pass, that before the end time shall come, that automobiles will take on the shape of an egg, become more like an egg. And I saw an American family driving down a highway in a car that... They were setting facing one another, and had a table, and were, look like, playing checkers or cards. And they didn't have any steering wheel in the car. And it was controlled by some power without a steering wheel. How many remembers me prophesying that (See?), that's been here? Now, at the World's Fair they've already got the car on the market. Here is the... It's sold now; some big company has taken many of them. And this car, here it is. Paul Boyd remembered the prophecy, looked into his book what I'd said, and took the picture in there. The Lord's Word is perfectly accurate. That was in 1933. That would be... Let's see, what would that be? Thirty-two years ago, wouldn't it? This is '64. Yeah, thirty... Yeah, thirty-one years ago. Thirty-one years ago the Lord told me that, and here it is. And the company's here that's already ordered them; and the--and trucking companies and things are getting trucks made like them. They can control it right from their headquarters like that, don't even have to have a driver in it. And here it is all already made, and there it is with the cars.  (August 23, 1964, Jeffersonville, Indiana) </ref>

*Church Age Book: Plastic bubble-top car without a sterring wheel on a beautiful road.  The people inside were playing a game.  <ref> The fourth vision showed the great advances in science that would come after the second world war. It was headed up in the vision of a plastic bubble-topped car that was running down beautiful highways under remote control so that people appeared seated in this car without a steering wheel and they were playing some sort of a game to amuse themselves. (Church Age Book)</ref>

==Checkers, anyone?==

==Wherefore art thou, steering wheel?==

=Driverless vehicles in the media=

With driver assist technologies being integrated into vehicles today, the promise of a fully autonomous individual vehicle on all or designated roadways is possible.  The main problem is responsibility for liability.   

Driverless technology for automobiles has been a technological dream since cars were first invented (see drawing from 1918).

A driverless car (controlled by radio) was first mentioned in Popular Science magazine in its November 1925 issue.  Driverless vehicles were revisited in the magazine on a repeated basis since then. (http://www.popsci.com/)

In the 1950's, autonomous cars represented the modern life of luxury that was just around the corner and were seen in popular media throughout the 50's and 60's. Disney also imagined a world of self-driving cars, with a heavy emphasis on leisure. The May 14, 1958 episode of the Disneyland TV series titled "Magic Highway USA" examined the future of transportation, including the future of driverless vehicles, complete with a game of checkers.

=Egg Shaped Cars=

The egg-shape design always seems sensational, but from its introduction in 1942 has never made its way into mass-production.  The design is not aerodynamic (an egg is designed to exit a chicken's body, not to be thrown), has the potential to crack in the wrong places during a collusion, an does not support fast acceleration.   

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