he worked for general motors. he was sort of a boy wonder in the early 1960s for general motors, because he was hitting cars out of the ballpark. really, in a lot of ways. he was achieving success after success. for example, he was one of the champions of the pontiac gto muscle car. this is him accepting a motor trend award for the pontiac gto. this was another one of his cars that he championed later in had the 1960s, the pontiac fire bird. these are very successful automobiles. people thought he was being groomed eventually to be ceo of general motors. but, he felt straight jacketed at general motors. he didn't like the corporate culture. he thought it was very restrictive and conservative. he was sort of a partyer. he didn't like dressing in suits. he wore his hair a little longer. he dated models. he felt that the restrictive, conservative, buttoned up culture at general motors was reflective in the automobile styling of general motors cars. so he quit general motors in 1973. when he quit, he said that general

of general motors cars. which he thought was stodgy. so he quit there in 1973 and when he quit he said that general motors just isn't making the kind of cars that interest the public. and he vowed, i'm going to teach general motors how to build automobiles. and so he got into a project to design a new car that he named after himself. and this is what the car looked like. do you know his name now? he named it after himself. do you recognize this car at all, the dmc? what does dmc stand for? eddy. >> delorean. >> this is john delorean, the delorean motor company. it had many innovative features, just like preston tucker did with his car. you can see the gull-winged doors and the stainless steel body that wouldn't rust. and he, unlike tucker, got financial backing for the car. he entered into a partnership with the british government because it's to a government's advantage to try to back carmakers because car making provides jobs. so he had a plant built in belfast, northern ireland, and the car went into mass

for posterity we're creating a highlight from the history of motor sports. on the road to alcohol for bike is a unique form of transport. and classic creations buildings so books replicas of famous racing cars. we start off the show on four wheels in the world of automobiles the city to c.v. is a legend it's french name. literally translates to two steam whole says the french call was first produced in one thousand nine hundred forty nine and is often referred to as an umbrella on wheels it was more than just your average automobile the smooth suspension and affordable price made it an instant hit it's still popular popular to this day and the company in central france has given one model a make over like no other. situation to see if the partition pole is made of wood but you can still drive it. after five years of work the car's maker mission to open yeah it's taking it out on its maiden voyage through the medieval town of knowledge. that wesley what it would be on this is the first time it's been on the streets of france you know. i get mad. at you like t

with more motorized mobility than ever dreamed of before.h we have the greatest highway system in all the world, it can't carry the mounting traffic of our growing greatness. ♪ >> we're running out of roads. we didn't dream big enough. here is the problem, all mapped out. 3,300,000 miles of it, unimproved, improved, paved, superhighway. country roads, small city streets, big city thoroughfares, state highways networking the nation. and here's the crisis. two-thirds of the way is now obsolete, worn out, inadequate in width, inferior in condition, capacity and safety. ♪ ♪ sure, these were good roads 30 years ago when they were laid out, but nothing lasts forever. the waiting line forms on the right. and at the head of the waiting line is your local highway engineer. listen to what he thinks about our roads. >> all over the county our farm-to-market roads are dying of old age. not anybody's fault. just a matter of time. and not enough money to keep

this man invented the electric motor. he invented the long-distance distribution of electricity. according to the united states up in court he invented radio, did a remote control, the list goes on. the use are the basics of our economy. done by one single man. there was a quote by the american institute of electrical engineering that said where we to eliminate from the industrial world the results of mister tesla's work the wheels of industry would cease to turn, our towns would be dark. not only the things he did in his life but he had a fantastic imagination. he was able to envision things and outline what they looked like even if the technology wasn't available for him to make it. he foresaw cell phones, radar, laser weapons, artificial intelligence, vertical lift aircraft. the list goes on. one of the quotes that knocked me out on a cell phone, this guy 110 years ago was talking about the ability to have something in your vest pocket which would give you news and he said we shall see and hear one another so perfectly as though we were face-to-face despite intervening distanc

now to a vehicle that isn't powered by a motor but has persevered as a method of transport for around two hundred years in fact there are more bicycles than cars in the world both in total and ranked by the number of individual models produced there have been all sorts of advancements since the first wooden bike hit the store shelves in the nineteenth century but in bold garia two architects turnpike inventors have created a new version by taking a step back their so-called hof bike reduces the bicycle to its basic elements our reporter michael gave it a test run on the streets of south korea. this is not an ordinary bike ride through town this is not an ordinary bike it doesn't have just one back wheel but two and they're both tiny and forget about the saddle this is not about comfort you have to use your whole body to ride a hoss bike and it takes a bit of practice. that's half biogas animism it's a cross between a bike in a skateboard but when you ride it it's a completely different feeling it's a whole new experience is because i'm against. hi michael it went to sofia in bulgaria

chrysler, ford, general motors. his car looks, again, unconventional. three headlights now instead of just two and that headlight in the center is wired to the steering wheel so as you turn the car, turn the front wheels, that light will turn on and then turn with the wheels to kind of shine your way around blind corners at night. kind of a clever idea. most radical departure of standard design, the engine in the back. it's a rear-mounted engine, a time when the volkswagen beetle is just coming on to the scene and pretty radical stuff at the time and things like seat belts, it had windshield to pop out in the event of a crash so it would be safe and away from the car. it also had a streamlined design, as well. it looks very slick, sleek even today. it has a rare windshield we would call a fast back. here's a car, you know, some 20 years before that showing that design, as well. the problem was tucker was i think the best way to say it is a little fish in a big pond now going to building cars and was just kind of out of his league. he was able to raise s

general motors made some modifications. corrected the problems of oversteer but by that time the damage was done. the book and the campaign so successful that the corvair brand was damaged heavily enough. general motors had to move on from there and sadly a recurring story in the automobile industry and it's not that automakers are negligent but it is that they are sometimes building cars that are just a little too far ahead of the technology and problems discovered after the pact. the ford pointo with the fuel design and could be very dangerous and that certainly caused problems. more recently, toyota, the japanese automaker, long respected for their quality of their automobiles, had some trouble with accelerator pedals sticking. and in my mind, sort of toyota's welcome to the big boys. now, of course, they're did biggest automobile manufacturer in the united states but with that size can come problems like that so they had those pedal problems but the corvair is perhaps still maybe one of the best remembered problem cars

his first founding of the ford motor company was in 1903 and it was a partnership. he eventually would lose control and drift away from that particular company, and the company changed hands and ended up becoming known what was known as cadillac, and that company proceeded on. the second attempt was not a financial success, and his third attempt, which was named the ford motor company, had a lot to do with his success on the racetrack. he built some very, very fast race cars in the 1900s and proved himsz as a worthy automobile engineer and got the backing he needed to found the ford motor company successfully in 1903, and that's the company that we know today. we're here in front of henry ford's birthplace. this was originally built right here in dearborn. henry ford was born here in the upper bedroom in july of 1863. his father was a carpenter, and his grandfather, patrick, was also a house builder and carpenter, and henry ford's father worked for him and that's how henry ford's father met his mother, mary. henry ford's father and his grandfather together built thi

coming up, a couple of ford motor company films pushing for paved roads throughout the u.s. and the development of an interstate highway system. that is followed by a visit to the ford museum in michigan for a look at ford cars from the model a to the mustang and then from our college lecture series, a university of central florida class on post world war ii auto industry mavericks. if you missed any of today's program, we'll show it again tonight at 8:00 eastern and you could find it any time online at c-span video library. thursday american history tv continues with a look at the life of martin luther king jr. we'll show a 50th anniversary commemoration from march and friday the world war i centennial ceremony and looking at aspects of the war from discussions at u.s. army heritage days. >>> this weekend on american history tv, during "reel america," our weekly look at historical films and the 1943 war department film why we fight, divide and conquer, explaining the causes of world war ii. "reel america" saturday night at 10:00 and sunday afternoon at 4:00 eastern. and sat

tell us how and why you got into motor racing?” of the sport.nto it by accident. most young drivers or most racing drivers have family members that have been in the sport and i didn't have any of that. it was my brother went carting, he isa it was my brother went carting, he is a couple of year older and came home bragging and sibling rivalry kicked in and ifound myself in home bragging and sibling rivalry kicked in and i found myself in a home bragging and sibling rivalry kicked in and ifound myself in a go ca rt kicked in and ifound myself in a go cart and now we are here. and we know you're a quick driver, there are some across motor sport in general, but not in formula one, do you think it is a matter of time before we see female racers in formula one? yeah, i hope. so for me, one of the nicest things about yesterday is that although it wasn't one of my best races i have had, i guess the fact that i won, shows it is poss ybl. i know it is more than possible for women to be on par with men and it is nice that i like to think when you say show

it was built by general motors as a companion car to cadillac. the cadillac had been the top of the line in the gm food chain, the peak, the most luxurious car they built. the lasalle was for folks that couldn't quite reach the cadillac. maybe a few years down the road, they'd be able to afford the cadillac. the reason we have this, it represents a changes or demarkation in the development of the automobile. if you had to pick a single model year where the car came something unto itself, you'd probably say about 1932, '33. in the 1932 cars, you still have a lot of straight lines, vertical edges and so forth. still some element of carriage in vehicle design. they're originally called horseless carriages because they were in many cases carriage bodies put on jacks with gasoline engines and you still see some of those lines, faint though they may be in the early 30s. but then they move to a more fluid, sculpted shape. almost a streamlined. the lasalle is a good example of streamlined design, not just in the look of the vehicle itself, but you look a

this m man invented the electric motor. he attempted the long-distance distribution of electricity. according to the united states supreme court he did or radio remote control and robots. on and these are the very basics of our economy were done by m one single man. the american institute of electrical engineers said were we to seize and eliminates our industrial world the results of mr. tesla's work the wheels of industry would cease to turn. our towns would be dark. it's not only the things he did but he had this fantastic imagination. he was able to envision things and would outline what they would look like. even though technology wasn't available for him to make it he foresaw cell phones radar, laser weapons artificial intelligence | aircraft. the list goes on. one of the things that knocked me out this guy 110 years ago was talking about the ability to have something in your vest pocket which would give you news and he said we shall see and hear one another so perfect they as though we were face to face despite distances of thousands of miles. a man will be able to carry one i

they thought they needed to compete more with general motors. general motors had a very well-established stepping stone system in their car brands. you'd start with a chevrolet, perhaps work your way up through oldsmobile, buick, ultimately get up to cadillac. ford has three divisions, ford brand, mercury in the midline and lincoln at the top of the chain. they thought they needed another step in there. so edsel was introduced to be that step in the ford motor company change and they introduced it with more razmatazz than we can imagine. they put out advertisements in newspapers. they bought an hour of prime time television. they had an edsel special with bing crosby and frank sinatra and other big stars of the day. when the big rollout day for the edsel appeared, it flopped and people weren't interested in the vehicle. i think there are three reasons for it. one reason people point to, the unconventional styling. you look at that grill, sometimes called a horse collar grill, it looks very different than anything else on the road in the late 195

thing of the past so why don't we see women participating at the pinnacle of motor sport. almost everything for some it's purely about statistics others say women are just not strong enough but the sad reality is women a conspicuous by their absence in major formula one race this. ongoing as women do take part in karting and other forms of the sport but few advanced a formula one has a little bit about on. your books and the same goes for the pit not a female engineer or mechanic insights. it's got from there have been some very successful women in motor sport and there's no reason why there shouldn't be more in the future that would be sensational as we said that's a. good one woman fighting to get more women into may just bush is so easy wolf she was a williams test driver during the twenty fourteen fifteen season she took part in several training sessions for the stable and was just as fast as teammate philippe massa but another man was chosen to be the second driver that audience who team or not the answer to. that is what was it like to be the only woman on the race t

they are sailing equestrian events like horse jumping or racing or writing and motor sport or. we don't need a separate discipline for women could we can take on men and be successful we just need more women on the race track so that the best ones get to the top to formula one the best in the form lines called luck on this you heard it this isn't about physical differences. it's a question of attitude so put your foot down and don't let us see a city in the driver's seat. no room for thea here but time's up that's it for this week's edition thanks for keeping me and the company. the be. the best. to. get. the ball. to. go. to malls very same style because i'm going to. get. some harley davidson inspired to fire me. that cash eventually turned into a collection now comprising forty five county riders. thirty minutes on. the. scars on. the pain still tangible. suffering for god. four cities and more. they have survived but do they also have a future. i really understand people who say they don't want to stay here. but i also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to

with more motorized mobility than ever dreamed of before.h we have the greatest highway system in all of the world, it can't carry the mounting traffic of our growing greatness. we're running out of roads. we didn't dream big enough. here is the problem. all mapped out. 3,300,000 miles of it, unimproved. improved. paved. super-highway. country roads. small city streets. big city thoroughfares. state highways, networking the nation. and here is the crisis. two-thirds of the way is now obsolete, worn out and inadequate and inferior in condition, capacity, and safety. sure these were good roads 30 years ago. when they were laid out. but nothing lasts forever. the waiting line forms on the right. and at the head of the waiting line is your local highway engineer. listen to what he thinks about our roads. all over the county our farm to market roads are dying of old age. not anybody's fault. just a matter of time. and not enough money to keep them up or make them modern. most were built in the '20s. but along came the neglect of the war years and

it's got from there have been some very successful women and motor sport and there's no. the reason why there should be more in the future that would be sensational as we said with a. look at one woman fighting to get more women into men just boys is so easy wolf she was a williams test driver during the twenty fourteen fifteen season she took part in several training sessions for the stable and was just as fast as teammate felipe massa but another man was chosen to be the second driver. or not the answer to. that is what was it like to be the only woman on the race track. to have stronger marriage because i did notice that i was getting a lot of attention because i was usually the only woman present. but i decided very early on in my career to focus on my performance. that i know my performance is what it's all about this. for me it was important to be on the racetrack and show what i could to. see my sex is a relevant. one while the s. a few women in my just a lot more sport is just i think motor sport is seen by most as a male domain of the mean i've been involved with

they are sailing a question of events like horse jumping or racing or writing and motor sport or. we don't need a separate discipline for women we can take on men and be successful we just need more women on the race track so that the best ones get to the top three to formula one. destined to form lines called the rock on this you heard it this isn't about physical differences. it's a question of attitude so put your foot down and don't let us see a sit in the driver's seat. no room for thea here but time's up that's it for this week's edition thanks for keeping me and the company. the best. the best. the best. the best. the best. the be. the best . the be. the sky was on fire. i'm a damn plane collision and the rubbish i am a substantial experienced. how are survivors coping with the tragedy today. mainstream on the american advice and advantage of. fifteen knots. the fast pace of life in the digital moyle to. shift as the lowdown on the web it shows a new developments useful information and anything else worth noting which. presents the latest finds. looks over the shoulders of

and in that year, the ford motor company was founded.he first payroll didn't take much bookkeeping. the first car of the new little company was called a model a. it had a two-cylinder eight horsepower engine and it could go 30 miles an hour. it sold for $850, a lot of money in those days, and its owners were chiefly in the upper bracket. it was smart and fashionably designed with a door in the rear like a pony cart. it cranked from the side, a good safety measure designed to present the cranker from being knocked flat and run over if the car started prematurely. everybody admired it, but only the more daring could be persuaded to ride in any kind of a motor car. the farmer was a forgotten man during this early period. he saw occasional cars go by on the rough roads, but these strange mechanical contraptions seemed out of place in the country. they were for city people, not for him. he kept on grooming his old reliable horse and waited. and suddenly, one day, it appeared. it was called the model t. it had a four-cylinder 20 horsepower eng

back to the motor's the locals tell another story about them the two motors full of water are supposedto represent two large open i yearn for the sun and the sky. the various strictly segregated parts of the city are linked by a great many steps. what's known as commodore rock depicts a bird's head with a beak the two rocks behind it represent the wings the channel below the beak could have been used to carry the blood of sacrificial animals to the incas the condo was a symbol of freedom of the air the temple of the sun is a masterpiece of into architecture and seems set into the rock like a condo's nest from the semicircular tower the priests could make astronomical observations calculate the solstice or determine the precise position of the sun which played a vital role in religious ceremonies some and moon were at the center of all the incas sacred rites the semicircular wall surrounds addressed block of granite which resembles an altar and was presumably used for sacrifices at the center of matthew picchu lies the palace the political heart of the city the beauty and precision of t

he got h guys out. narrator: in 1984, perot merged eds with the giant general motors, but almost from the beginning, perot and his people found it difficult to work in the gm environment. - i come from an environment where if, s when y a snake, you kill it. you guys see a snake, get a consultant on snakes, form a committee on snakes, think about it for a year, and by the time you do anything, there's snakes all over the factory. - in 1986, gener motors had really had enough of you and said, "let us buy back the s00ck for approximately illion." how did you feel about that? - i made it very clear i thought it was obscene, th because i think closed 11 factories, laid off 30,000 people, on and on and on and on, and suddenly they were willing to pay me twice what my stock was worth just so that i wouldn't keep trying to teach the elephant to tap-dance. - well, what's he planning next? - he just started a new computer company. it's called perot systems. he says he's happiest down where the rubber meets the road. so i suspect that he'll ctinue with that, and we haven't heard the last from th

bokes wagon antalya motors bokes wagon and toyota motor will unload millions of electric vehicles on a global scale rebecca led land an analyst with kelley blue book says it will be very very difficult to make a profit but not impossible at this time the automotive industry is losing money on electric vehicles due to limited consumer appeal and tie cost however experts predict electric vehicles will take up forty to fifty percent of the global auto market and a little more than twenty years general motors plans to sell one million electric vehicles a year by two thousand and twenty six that will include electrics and as u.v.'s tesla aims to sell one million cars by two thousand and twenty books wagon will see up to three million a year by two thousand and twenty five and twenty yoda's looking to sell five point five million by twenty thirty experts believe electric vehicles will soon compete with traditional cars and make profits general motors expects its electric vehicles will become profitable by twenty twenty one and analysts for navigant research says as a battery capacity and i

taxis, the locally made tuk—tuks the motor taxis, the locally made tuk—tu ks and cars the motor taxisand cars battle for road space. now there is the autorickshaw to contend with. their popularity has caused a ripple of discontent amongst the legions of tuk—tuk owners, who see their way of life and income is under threat. translation: before the rickshaws arrived everyone just used tuk—tuks but the rickshaws use lpg so they are cheaper and they also use something we don't have, so now customers prefer them. many autorickshaw as part of quipped with autorickshaw as part of quipped with a cambodian version of uber and this has won over passengers who are not content has won over passengers who are not co nte nt to has won over passengers who are not content to haggle over the affair. translation: i changed from tuk-tuk to the rickshaw because now customers can book me by the phone app. passengers like to use the rickshaws because the route and the costis rickshaws because the route and the cost is on their phone so there is no argument about the price. while the drivers of the old and t

like why are the s a few women in my just a lot more sport is just i think motor sport is seen by most as a male domain i mean i've been involved with it since i was eight and i know that it doesn't have to be that way i think we have to inspire the next generation. so they have to believe that they have a chance to work on or by the side of the race track are biased in this way that's why i set up dare to be different how be different it's an initiative designed to inspire the next generation next gets you and inspire you that. you don't just want more women behind the wheel you want to see more in motion sporty in general what's holding them back this really can simulate torque is this when i sat in a simulator i worked with eight engineers and half of them were women. so there are a lot of good women out there and we want them to serve as role models for others it's really important for young girls to see what women are doing this and this is both me all in this discussion and this is the single sex race is an alternative should women and men take part together then. if i were to sa

and those traction motors then the electric motors move the locomotive up and down track. you're looking at an electric motor that carries its own generator with it. very quickly diesel electric locomotives prove their worth on american railroads. they require much less maintenance than steam locomotives. you didn't have to clean ash out of the fire box, you didn't have to have the infrastructure required there was no need for water tanks or round houses in which the regular maintenance and inspection work could be done. you just top off the fuel tank and it could go for thousands of miles before it required major repairs. nevertheless they made their inroads fairly slowly. they started with smaller units that might have been owned by a factory or a power plant use today haul coal cars or cars around a small yard used by that factory. it was by the 1930s the diesel electric moved into passenger service and became very popular with passengers. then certainly after world war ii they made their inroads on the freight service and by the late 1950s they had completely replaced

but in mick, the family's talent and passion for motor racing continues.er. he had a huge influence. as everybody knows, i guess he's my idol. he is the person i looked up to and i am really following everything he did and trying to look at something that i could use myself. and so he had a huge role in how i am driving now. really happy about that. in his early career, mick raced under his mother's maiden name to avoid the spotlight. but now the steely determination associated with the schumacher family shines through. your name is now synonymous with motorsport, isn't it? yes, it is. but i don't know if... for sure, a lot of doors open easier and i want to prove that i am a racing driver and not only someone who has the name. i don't have any rush so for me if i am ready as a racing driver, a complete racing driver, i think that is the right moment for me to go into f1 and then that is when i am able to show what i have got. at the belgian grand prix last season, mick drove his father's car around the track, a tribute to past successes and a glimpse at t

the first founding of the ford motor company was in 1903. it was a partnership that he would lose control and drift away from the company and the company changed hands and ended up becoming known as cadillac. the company proceeded on. the second attempt was not a financial success. the third attempt which was named the ford motor company had a lot of success on the racetrack. he built very fast racecars and raised them and proved himself that and got the backing he needed for the company successfully and that is the company we know today. we are in front of henry ford's place in dearborn built in 1861. henry ford is born here in the upper bedroom in july 1863. his father was a carpenter and his father, patrick o'hearn was also a carpenter. henry ford's father worked for him and that is how henry ford's father met his mother. henry ford's father and his grandfather built the house. it was relocated here late in henry ford's lunch -- life in 1944. it was only moved about two miles from the original location and it was built over time. we are r

general motors was born in flint. the auto industry was born in flint. even more importantly than being the birthplace of cars, flint is the birthplace of unions. the uaw was born in flint. really due to the tenacity, bravery, disobedience of auto workers in the late 1930s who sat down for something called the flint down straight for 44 days demanding their share of prosperity. it took a personal intervention of them, the governor of michigan and the amazing progressive governor and frankly to end that strike. finally the uaw was recognized and what happened was something called the grand bargain. this was born in flint, which created living wages, which created benefits and an amazing school system which was exported to 300 school districts, which created prosperity and those wages that were informed in flint were spread throughout the country. that is a loyalty, the resilience that i know in flint. and because of all that, can you imagine coming can you believe that? because the bat they have some of the best public health indices. but that has changed

motor magazine on this edition a classic marathon rally i mean let me out. with a little superman the ford fiesta s.t. . plus the new b.m.w. x for. less than four years after its launch b.m.w. percents the updated x. for that entails the new addition also sharing the platform of the latest x. three saving b.m.w. a lot of money thanks to synergies of the two models the x four looks longer runnier and more distinctive we took a closer look at a new s.u.v. coupe a and spartanburg south carolina. the new explorers already been featured at the geneva motor show which ways our car reviewer i know is that he wants to experience it out on the road this is the little brother of the x. six billed by its maker as sports activity coupe a zero x. force based on the x three so with the latter having recently been upgraded beamer has two. we checked out the most powerful diesel in. mission with the sport expect each m forty d. it's powered by a turbo charged in line six unit with two hundred forty kilowatts of output all wheel drive and an eight speed out of magic transmis

the face of motor sports — how formula e racing is helping to drive us towards electric cars.hat's in 30 minutes. ten people, including two children, have been taken to hospital following a shooting in moss side in manchester. one adult has serious injuries, from what are said to be pellet wounds. a carnival had been taking place nearby, but had finished some time before the attack took place. police have described it as "a reckless act that could have had devastating consequences". our correspondent megan paterson reports from the scene. less than 2a hours ago, this street was busy with people taking part in the nearby caribbean carnival. thousands enjoyed the event peacefully. but at 2.30am this morning,

> reporter: pastor smith says despite her worldwide fame, the singer never forgot her roots in the motory. ♪ when i knew >> she sang for presidents and most notably, she moved president obama to tears. >> when she sits at that piano and starts in with the piano, she connects with the music so well, it will drive anybody to tears. ♪ you make me feel id reporter: smith last spoke to franklin just two months ago. >> she just said, "i'm not-- not to be worried about and the church is not to be worried about." i knew that meant she's recognizing that this long struggle might soon be over. qu reporter: all day long, we've

denham, she terveed toyota motor company in australia for seven years. and arthur anderson. they are not titans of industry. this is not the proctor and gamble board not jim neerny and flake checking off on it most companies are not behold tony the ceo the way this is he has directors that's a big deal. >> a plus. >> they are not all his brother. i mean one off i mean they are not all closely related to him this is as independent -- we want murdoch why isn't it murdoch >> you know why? because murdoch is not remember what cuban said yesterday. >> on wapner's show. >> he called in. wapner had such a great show. >> competitors are not standing still. inside word today that a ten