On Driving

Posted by: GOOD
on February 12, 2008 at 2:00 pm

The first Model T rolled out in 1908. In-N-Out introduced the drive-through in 1948. The first car phone—weighing 90 pounds—was released in Stockholm in 1956.

These and other landmarks from our century of motoring in America.

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DISCUSSION: 6 Comments

- Posted by: davatron5000
- on March 3, 2009 at 5:51 pm
this is absolutely fascinating! i was just wondering what MPG a Model T got. thanks!
- Posted by: Anonymous
- on March 4, 2009 at 12:55 pm
nice message with the trees
- Posted by: Anonymous
- on March 4, 2009 at 7:53 pm
model t was a flex fuel (gas or ethanol) car that got up to 21 mph – we’ve come such a long way!!
- Posted by: Anonymous
- on April 14, 2009 at 4:25 pm
funny they start with model t, rather than, say, the first person killed by car, or the much preferred electric car, or the social revolution of the bicycle (and the steps the oil industry and its subsidiary, the gasoline automobile, took to crush the bicycle, mass transit, and the electric car)…anyone wanna give this game a bail-out? first born child?thanks.
- Posted by: Anonymous
- on April 14, 2009 at 4:29 pm
So many more milestones I’d include. How about when GM was fined for criminal conspiracy in destroying our inter-urban rail? The USA once had the finest public transportation in the world, gutted and destroyed, a theft from the public to force a radical monopoly: everyone must use cars.
- Posted by: Anonymous
- on May 11, 2009 at 2:26 pm
why don’t you start with the first car built by karl benz?