PRIDE by FUMIGRAPHIK_Photographist (cc by-nc-nd)
In a recent comment on HackerNews, someone asserted that the idea of self-driving car would have seemed fairly obvious to those who had used horse drawn carriages, because horses would traverse well-known routes more or less on their own. Is that true?
In Ask Metafilter, phrontist asks "Did horses navigate on their own?"
Antwerp dog-cart by seriykotik1970 (cc by-nc-sa)
Sangermaine speaks truly: Members sciatrix and Iridic put the cart before the hordes with great posts on the history of the dog cart and a glossary of carriages (in which we learn that a "dog-cart" is not a dog cart, except when it is).
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