IN the 1940's the museum came up with radical new ideas for the main entrance, including replacing the high steps with a grade-level entrance or creating a curving ramp so automobiles could drive right up to the Great Hall.
In Japan's case, its exports to the United States were highly visible in the form of electronics and, even more so, automobiles.
Performances most often feature human beings as the performers, but not necessarily so: automobiles perform on test tracks; software programs, in hardware devices.
It was difficult to believe from behind the wheel, hustling along the canyon roads above Malibu, California, that there could be quite so much automobile aft of the front seats.
But so far automobiles have been limited to basic commands.
Among these exceptions is the so-called "automobile exception". See Colorado v. Bannister, 449 U.S. 1, 101 S.Ct.
A business trip to Bangkok will buck up the glummest Van Wyck Expressway rubbernecker; the traffic there, as in so many automobile-plagued Asian mega-capitals, is apocalyptic.
I enjoyed "So Many Automobiles, So Little Turnpike," by Matthew Purdy (Our Towns, May 26), and would like to comment about this lifetime love affair that some of us have had for a car.
"We designed the changes so that automobiles could still use the area on occasion," says Childs, but the cars will clearly be "guests" in an otherwise pedestrian zone.
The Black Ministers Council of New Jersey today announced a campaign to inform minority drivers that they have a right to refuse to submit to so-called automobile consent searches, which have been the focus of the fight over racial profiling.
