100 Years of Motoring: Car History, Monopoly Style
I just came across this awesome graphic from GoodMagazine which puts all the highlights of Motoring in the country for the past year in a Monopoly like diagram. Not only does this representation look good, but it also makes something interesting on what could have been a really boring subject.
A few of the details worth noting and mentioning from the diagram are the following:
1912: Traffic signals were introduced
1930: First Car radio
1935: Lead became an addon for gasoline to increase mileage.
1950: 2 Million barrells of gasoline used in a day in the US
1955: James dean died in a car accident in California.
1973: Oil Crisis
1996: Banning of leaded gasoline
2001: The Bush Administration trashed the federal program to design fuel efficient “super cars wasting more than 5 years of research and more than 1 billion dollar of federal money spent on it.
2005: An American spends 19 cents of every dollar he spends on transportation
There surely are other important events in our motoring history that is worth mentioning in this diagram, however, it is undeniable that this is a really good way of plotting how far we have come since the first Model T was introduced by Ford in 1908.
