1media/1956_GM_Firebird_II_dashboard_detail-thumb.jpgmedia/GM_04_1956 GM Firebird II dashboard detail.jpg2020-07-06T11:59:50-07:001956 GM Firebird II dashboard detail4plain2020-08-28T10:36:27-07:00The interior of the Firebird II bore a closer resemblance to a cockpit than a passenger car. Most of the instruments on the dashboard were nonfunctional, included for illustrative purposes only. One of the most intriguing ideas was a built-in guidance system that would communicate with electrical wires embedded in the roadways, creating an accident-free way of navigating what a GM press release called the “superhighways of tomorrow.” More than sixty years later, such a development seems only a remote possibility.
