1971: Is this the CAR of the FUTURE? | Tomorrow’s World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

James Burke may appear to be driving a modest 1970s car, but looks can be deceiving, for this prototype features not just mod cons, but future cons.

It incorporates all manner of electronic sensors and controllers to make it more efficient and safer to drive - a display panel which alerts drivers when something is wrong with the car, an autocruise feature to automatically regulate speed, a new braking system that stops wheel lock, and a monitored petrol injection system that stops over revving of the engine.

It's a motoring masterstroke, a triumph of transport, an engineering epiphany - it's the car of the future, and it's yours for just £55,000.

Clip taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast 8 January 1971.




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