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This sci-fi-adventure-comedy inundated the American cultural lexicon and is also one of the best films ever made. Steven Spielberg produced, after all.
Self-driving cars aren’t just passive algorithms that steer like your grandmother. Now they can drift.
In the 1989 sequel to “Back to the Future,” Michael J. Fox’s character uses his flying time machine to travel to a 2015 filled with flying skateboards, automated dog-walkers and self-drying jackets.
The more your knees quiver, the more the 90 pound board you’re perched on, floating above a pillow of air, seems about to shoot out from under your feet. A high-pitched engine scream bounces from the sheet of copper as you swivel and glide your way a few feet forward.
