1971: The car of the future
James Burke tries out a car which looks perfectly ordinary but is in fact fitted out with 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.
Clip taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast .