In 1879, the world’s first one-cylinder, two-stroke engine was built by Carl Benz. And by 1888, the inventor’s wife, Bertha Benz, took the world’s first automotive road trip. (At one point, she fixed the engine using a garter.) Back then, automotive technology evolved in a painstakingly slow way. In the early 1900s, people were still using a hand crank located outside the vehicle to start the engine. Now, you don’t even need to put a key into the ignition of some late model cars. Vehicles can start up via a command on the driver’s smartphone. Car technology has come a long way and you can help it travel even further.