Abstract :
This spring issue of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine marks the 125th anniversary of the invention of the automobile. While horse-drawn carriages dominated individual mobility in the end of the 19th century, Carl and his wife Bertha were inspired by the vision of locomotives without rails that would run free over roads and fields. Carl Benz had studied mechanics at the Politechnikum in Karlsuhe, Germany´s first technical university and a predecessor of KIT.
