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by georgemcbay 4404 days ago
Well even getting to the 'visionary' stage is an iterative process.

Long before KITT (from Knight Rider) there was Sally:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_(short_story)

And for all I know there could have been earlier examples, that's just the earliest one I'm aware of off the top of my head and perhaps somewhat coincidentally relevant since the oldest car character in the story was created in 2015 which is pretty impressive ball-park estimating (though the cars in the story are general purpose AI, which obviously is still a ways off).

Anyway, there's been lots of other self-driving cars in fiction like Herbie (The Love Bug), though they are generally more "magical" than technical, like KITT and Sally.

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Christine!