THE DRIVING MILLENNIUM With the passing of a millennium, the
last 1000 years has been a time where the world was brought
closer together in ways that some might say were for the better,
others the worse. The invention of the motor vehicle has changed
the planet forever in a positive way, yet is responsible for
more deaths than any other mechanical invention. On many "Top
Lists" of the century, the invention of the printing press by
Gutenberg was hailed as a milestone, and I agree that is was.
The written word being available to masses brought the world a
little closer together. (When I first heard Gutenberg was chosen
by A & E Biography as the #1 person of the Millennium, I
thought, "Boy, Steve Guttenberg wasn't THAT good an actor").
Here is how some driving was done at the beginning of the
millennium in the East, Europe, and Africa. Karl Benz developed
a two-cycle internal combustion engine and later a light four-
cycle engine. He invented the differential drive and other
automotive accessories. In 1885 he bu