1904 - First speeding ticket, Dayton Ohio.1908 - Ford Model T introduced.
1911 - First Indy 500 Race takes place.
1912 - Traffic signals first used.
1920 - Travel trailers introduced.
1921 - Fedral - Aid Highway aid act. Money to states to build roads.
1926 - Cigarettte lighters installed (actually cigar lighters)
1930 - First car radio.
1932 - First parking meter.
1933 - Drive in movie theater open.
1935 - Lead additive added to fuel to increase gas mileage.
1940 - California opens its first highway.
1940 - First car air conditioning.
1945 - Cruise Control invented.
1946 - Jeep introduces the first SUV.
1948 - "In-N-Out" opens the first drive through.
1948 - The first power windows..
1955 - James Dean dies in car accident.
1956 - Federal aid Highway Act (to ensure troop movement incase of invasion).
1956 - First car phone released in Stockholm.
1963 - Clean air act first inacted.
1968 - First air bag introduced.
1975 - Catalytic converters become standard.
1984 - Seat belts become manatory.
1990 - Clean air act exteneded.
1992 - First civilian version of the Humvee.
1996 - Leaded gasoline banned.
1997 - GM offers electric car for lease.
2000 - First GPS navagater patented.
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