I really love listening to techno music when I'm driving, the pace of the music seems to get me places quicker, or so it seems.
In Detroit, techno was a result of melding African American music with electronic music.
How interesting! Did it originate in Detroit in the modern times then? 
Yes.  Detroit techno is seen as the foundation upon which sub-genres exist.
I did not know that. I really admire the production of techno music, you can listen to a song endlessly and still hear hidden depths to it.
This wonderful new music emerged during the mid to late 1980s.
I believe a lot of new genres were founded in the 80's, it's a time when music really began to change, especially with the development of music videos on channels such as MTV.
MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of owner Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and is headquartered in New York City. The channel was launched on August 1, 1981, and originally aired music videos as guided by television personalities known as "video jockeys" (VJs). At first, MTV's main target demographic was young adults, but today it is primarily teenagers, particularly high school and college students.
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Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States in the mid-to-late 1980s. The style resulted from the melding of African American styles such as Chicago house, funk, and electro with electronic music by artists such as Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Added to this is the influence of futuristic and science-fiction themes relevant to life in American late capitalist society, with Alvin Toffler's book "The Third Wave" being a notable