See Honda's Driverless Toy Cars Cross The World

Autonomous cars are a chance to reinvent the steering wheel. Because the vehicles themselves do all the driving, cars are no longer bound by such basic conventions as "keep a human facing forward at all times" and "don't try to climb over boulders like a spider." As a grand showcase for the new possibilities of autonomous cars, Honda plotted a seven-stage road trip roughly following that path of humanity's great migration from a species to the edge of the world. The auto company used miniature models for this conceptual video, but the hope is the same principles could be applied to human-sized autonomous vehicles of the future. Honda's route goes from Nairobi, Kenya to Manaus, Brazil, and new vehicles trace individual legs of that journey.