Bbc Archive
@bbcarchive·780K subscribers·1.9K videos
In-Car Sat Nav? Without a Satellite? In 1971? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
Posted
December 21, 2021
Views
1,722,681
Likes
29,286
Comments
3,083
Engagement
December 21, 2021
1,722,681
29,286
3,083
1.88%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
4:58Now PlayingMichael 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 taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast on BBC One, Friday 15 October, 1971.
You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults.
Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive
You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
