1908 New York to Paris Race

In 1907 the Peking to Paris automobile race had inspired an even bolder test of these new machines. The following year the course would be from New York City, USA, to Paris, France with a 150-mile (240 km) ship passage from Nome, Alaska, across the Bering Strait to East Cape, Siberia, this at a time when ``the motor car is the most fragile and capricious thing on earth.''

Question: can you drive to paris from new york
Answer: no