Michael Rodd demonstrates an extraordinary new invention that could transform the way drivers negotiate the roads forever. A nifty control unit reads information from the car's milometer and relays instructions to the driver using pre-recorded phrases stored on a cassette tape. With such clear, precise navigation, might this spell the end for unwieldy paper maps and stopping to ask unreliable pedestrians?

This clip is from Tomorrow's World,  originally broadcast 15 October, 1971.




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