From 'horseless carriage' to 'driverless car,' are you ready?

Shortly after the first automobile arrived in the small but grandly named village of Ohio City, Ohio, an old story goes, someone brought a second car to town -- which soon collided with the first.

This story, which I learned growing up in another Ohio town, provided such an excellent example of Murphy's Law -- "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" -- that I was very disappointed to hear that the story was