
FirebirdII, an early car with driverless tech, by Karrmann, CC BY-SA 3.0,
'E pur si muove'.
‘And yet it moves’ – Galileo’s best-known words – could have been the slogan of choice for the first driverless cars; but in the end his ‘Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems’ became more apposite in what became a defining moment in postcapitalist transition.