9 Predictions By Sci-Fi Movies That Eerily Came True

9. Self-Driving Cars (Total Recall)

Memory implants and weird animatronic disguises don't exist just yet, but Arnold Schwarzenegger's Martian mind-bender Total Recall deserves plaudits for predicting the development of self-driving vehicles

The buzz around autonomous cars has never been louder, which virtually every major motor manufacturer trialling driverless technology, along with tech giants such as Google and Apple. But back in 1990, it was the stuff of science fiction.

The scene where Arnie hitches a ride in the Johnny Cab in legendary, mostly because of the creepy robot driver voiced by Star Trek Voyager actor Robert Picardo. Thankfully the modern iterations of driverless cars which arrived years later didn't include these unsettling, mechnical chauffeurs.

Although the autonomous vehicles depicted in Will Smith's I, Robot bear a closer resemblance to the cars in testing now, hats off to Total Recall for featuring them first.