Mercedes has released three short teaser-live videos showing its autonomous concept in a Back to the Future-esque atmosphere. It says it’s grateful to the movie series for having inspired its engineers.
What they’re obviously actually doing is snagging a bit of free publicity now that Back to the Future will be intensely googled in the near future – the series’ will be celebrated on October 21, a day dubbed “Back to the Future Day…”
It’s like Audi going to the moon, in a way, as its slightly generic-looking self-driving concept could have been inspired by any number of other films portraying similar futuristic transport ideas. But none of those other movies that offer this scenario are coming up for an anniversary, so Back to the Future it is.
At least nobody’s though of a reboot to the actual movie series yet, there’s thankfully no Back to the Future IV planned.