Kirby, meet Stanley (This article is the first of a three-part series. Click here for part 2 and here for part 3) Until recently, it was the stuff of Hollywood. Movies from The Love Bug to Minority Report have depicted cars that let passengers just hop in, tell the car where they want to go, and then relax and enjoy the ride. But here in the real world, cars need human drivers. Then in 2005, a modified Volkswagen, dubbed Stanley, turned science fiction int