Crowd watching demonstration of Essex remote-controlled automobile

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Description

View of a crowd watching a demonstration of an Essex remote-controlled car in Alabama. Also known as phantom automobiles, the cars were controlled via radio signals from a second vehicle following the driverless car. Damson & Abraham store in background.

Details

Resource ID:: na051480
Subject:: Automated vehicles--Alabama; Hudson Motor Car Company; Automobiles--Alabama; Crowds--Alabama; Photographic prints
Date:: 1920-1929
Format:: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Department:: National Automotive History Collection
Location:: Automated vehicles
Copyright:: Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.