The first self-driving vehicles were horses. amirite?

Any vehicle is self driving if you let go of the steering wheel…

by monserrat22 1 week ago

… and put on cruise control

by Various_Split 1 week ago

If horses are "self driving" then so are humans.

by Durwardziemann 1 week ago

Every time I jump on a humans back though, and try to ride them, they scream and call the police.

by Substantial_Echo8192 1 week ago

I hear that

by Durwardziemann 1 week ago

U have to tame them first, then they will let u ride them

by Striking-Cut-9835 1 week ago

Wow that feels disturbing.

by Durwardziemann 1 week ago

You gotta break them in first

by Anonymous 1 week ago

And then by that logic, the first one wouldn't have been humans either, it woulda been some clump of cells in the primordial sea.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Kinda need a vehicle involved though.

by Durwardziemann 1 week ago

Donkeys probably came first.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Not really self-driving. Horses had an adaptive cruise control but you couldn't input your destination and expect them to go there. The rider was still in charge of the route.

by Accomplished-Lab6651 1 week ago

Don't horses always find their way home? So it might just work as self-driving when returning from the pub.

by MasterpieceSmall7953 1 week ago

Riding under the influence definitely feels safer than driving. I don't know enough about horses to know if they would return home on their own.

by Accomplished-Lab6651 1 week ago

I actually heard a story recently about how when this dude and his friends got drunk back in the day their horses would take them home

by Marshalldickens 1 week ago

The old story was that if the drunk guy could get on the horse, his horse could take him home. Horses definitely know a route, and will follow that route if its part of a routine. So if your horse knows the way home from the bar without input from the rider, you need to cut down on the stuff.

by Hermanlockman 1 week ago

That would be one smart horse

by Substantial_Echo8192 1 week ago

What you need is a smart saddle with GPS that can control the reigns.

by Accomplished-Lab6651 1 week ago

How about a log in a river

by Saige09 1 week ago

Never heard of reins, huh?

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Can't say I have, neigh.

by LostChampionship 1 week ago

Last I checked horses don't take you to where you want to go on their own, they need to be steered like any vehicle.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Last I checked cars do what you tell them when you tell them and don't get put down because of a flat tire xD

by Velvamoen 1 week ago

Soldiers moving on horseback. But fighting dismounted, like regular infantry. Imagine that. Imagine dragoons.

by maynarddonnelly 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure horses don't go where you want them to without directly guiding them. I don't thing the comparison really works.

by Dry_Pop 1 week ago

Hmmm they're not vehicles though. If they are, the first self driving vehicles were some sort of dinosaur or caveman era (whatever that is) animal like mammoths, bulls of some sort, of maybe even camels Maybe even sled dogs? That's be a truer version of a self driving vehicle opposed to horses.

by Velvamoen 1 week ago

And the first drone delivery services were pigeons.

by LostChampionship 1 week ago

I'd say it was a single celled organism.

by Agulgowski 1 week ago