#and are posting unhinged theories about these ships being proof of a hyperadvanced civ with AI/GPS

[sears-tower]

I sometimes think about the Phaeacian ships (also sometimes called Scherian ships) from The Odyssey (or at least Homer's telling of that story). Mythological ships that were able to be steered by thought alone and needed no pilot (and if I remember also no crew for the most part). You just told it where you wanted to go and it would navigate itself and be the fastest ship in the planet as it does so.

There is very little information about them as they are only mentioned as the plot device to get Odysseus finally home, and were destroyed by Poseidon for helping Odysseus, but I do sometimes wonder how damn good actual IRL Scherian ships were and how fine their sailors were for Homer to attribute semi-sentient and swift status onto their ships. I wish there were more myths about them.

I don't have a copy of The Odyssey anymore so the best I can do is a quote from Wikipedia:

"Tell me also your country, nation, and city, that our ships may shape their purpose accordingly and take you there. For the Phaeacians have no pilots; their vessels have no rudders as those of other nations have, but the ships themselves understand what it is that we are thinking about and want; they know all the cities and countries in the whole world, and can traverse the sea just as well even when it is covered with mist and cloud, so that there is no danger of being wrecked or coming to any harm."

-King Alcinous to Odysseus