Cars
Giant Automatic Highway Builders of the Future
Arthur Radebaugh's vision of a road-creating machine may not have been a figment of just his imagination- a Disney-produced television program had a similar idea
December 16, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
1955 Imagines Travel in 1965
The Ford Motor Company envisioned a Batmobile in every garage.
October 25, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Today at War, Tomorrow in Stores
Advertisers in the 1940s promised American consumers that they would be rewarded for their wartime sacrifices on the homefront
October 12, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000
A utopian vision of Boston promises no slums, no traffic jams, no late mail deliveries and, best of all, night baseball games
October 04, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Park(ing) Day’s Roadside Attraction
The founders of Park(ing) Day discuss the birth of their idea and how it became a global phenomenom
September 14, 2011 |
By Jeff Greenwald
Charging Ahead With a New Electric Car
An entrepreneur hits the road with a new approach for an all-electric car that overcomes its biggest shortcoming
August 2010 |
By Joshua Hammer
Taking the Great American Roadtrip
In the spirit of Kerouac and Steinbeck, the celebrated travel writer fulfills a childhood fantasy: to drive across his native land
September 2009 |
By Paul Theroux
Great Road Trips in American Literature
From Twain to Kerouac to Bryson, writers have found inspiration in hitting the road and traveling the United States
August 20, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Alice Ramsey's Historic Cross-Country Drive
In 1909, 22-year-old Alice Ramsey made history as the first woman to drive across the United States
June 05, 2009 |
By Marina Koestler Ruben
Buckle Up Your Seatbelt and Behave
Do we take more risks when we feel safe? Fifty years after we began using the three-point seatbelt, there's a new answer
April 2009 |
By William Ecenbarger
The Truth About Traffic
Author Tom Vanderbilt Shows Why Cars and People Don’t Mix
August 25, 2008 |
By Abigail Tucker
The Death of the EV-1
Fans of a battery-powered emissions free sedan mourn its passing
June 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
Wow! A Mile a Minute!
But 60 mph was a breeze to Barney Oldfield, better known as the "speed king" of the horseless carriage world
May 1998 |
By Michael Kernan
