§ Explorations & Adventures
The Future of Physical AI and Transportation as created and designed by Omar, Founder of Outonomous.
The platform that turns the planet's 1.6 billion existing vehicles into autonomous machines. Every vehicle in this archive was once someone's bet on how the world should move. This is ours.
I predicted and built all three AI waves. I study the automobile the same way I called them: by reading the full arc, not the current headline.
The automobile has had a handful of moments that changed everything. The 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first automobile ever built. The 1898 Wartburg runabout from Eisenach, the factory that became BMW. The Duesenbergs and Rolls-Royces of the coachbuilt era, when engineering became art. The Bugatti Type 51, where machine and driver reached the edge of the possible together.
This is my working archive of the most important vehicles ever made, photographed and examined first-hand at collections like the Nethercutt, machine by machine, from the first car in history to the last era of human driving.
Entry 001The first automobile
July 2026
The 1886 Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first automobile ever built.
Three wheels, one cylinder, a tiller, and German patent DRP 37435, granted to Karl Benz on 29 January 1886. Every one of the planet's 1.6 billion vehicles descends from this machine.
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Entry 002The first BMW
July 2026
The 1898 Eisenach Runabout, the first car BMW ever built on.
In 1928, Bayerische Motoren Werke bought the Eisenach factory to get into the car business. This little green two-cylinder is the first vehicle that factory ever made, thirty years earlier. Every BMW traces back to it.
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