Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World: The Car

Photo of MARTY, the Stanford Dynamic Design Lab's autonomous, electric, drifting Delorean drifting around cones at Thunderhill Raceway.

Chris Gerdes, one of the researchers featured in this PBS episode working on the next generation of self-driving automobiles, discusses some of the technological advancements of the car tracking the 9,000-year history of the automobile from origins in dog-sleds to the Model T.