It also came with cruise control, driver lumbar support, leather seats, and CD player, making this a very comfortable car to be in, especially on an autoroute.
Film lovers know him for the short story that became Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up," but Cortázar also wrote a fanciful short story, "The Southern Thruway," about a traffic jam on an autoroute so congested that the jammees organize their own society.
From Paris we headed to the D-Day beaches of Normandy, following the A-13 Autoroute, a freeway on which the PT cruised comfortably at 140 to 160 kilometers an hour -- about 85 to 95 m.p.h.
Roman Antiquities and Spanish Classics GETTING THERE By car, Tarragona is a little over an hour's trip from Barcelona on the A-7 Autoroute, or slower on the more picturesque coastal road, the E-240.
■ On holiday in France, you are negotiating a treacherous autoroute when your mobile rings.
By now weary of motorways, I was pleased to find online a ride over the Pyrenees to Barcelona, bearing a little blue autoroute icon with a strike-through – meaning that it would mostly be on precipitous B-roads.
Meanwhile, back in France around 1983, Bonnell and a high-school classmate wrote a primitive but seminal video game called Autoroute, in which a player guides a frog across a busy highway (similar to another popular game called Frogger).
It was studied along the Laurentian Autoroute in Quebec, Canada (A-15 North), by comparing sections managed under intensive and ecological management.
With the cruise control on, the sheer silence lent autoroute driving an extracorporeal feel, while in the mountains it was far more stimulating.
He and his wife ultimately reconcile, not at the Ritz, but in a hotel by the autoroute.
This session has been especially exciting because, an hour away down the autoroute blanche at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider got back into business, as did the big particle detectors (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) which record what happens when protons collide at a new record high energy.
