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 | | With seven aerodynamic fins and a double-canopy cockpit, the Firebird III was 1958's "car of the future." Over four decades later, the car'sconceptual underpinnings are still radically ahead-of-their-time. |
 | | The Firebird III was chock full of space-age innovations: special drag brakes which emerged from flat panels to slow the car at high speeds, an "ultra-sonic" key which signaled the body panel (i.e., the doors) to swing open, an automated guidance system to avoid accidents and "no hold" steering. |
 | | One was Unicontrol, a mouse-like instrument which substituted for steering-wheel, transmission, throttle and brake (shifting it left turned the car left, shifting it right turned the car right, back applied the brakes and forward put the car into reverse). |
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