Ford, maker of Models A and T, installs the moving auto assembly line. Detroit installs the first three-color stoplights. Ninety years later, many drivers do not know what each color means. The first drive-in restaurant opens in Dallas. The first suburban shopping mall opens outside St. Louis.
Balloon tires appear.
In Camden, N.J., the first drive-in theater opens. Delco offers the first in-dash car radio. Chevrolet introduces the Suburban Carryall, a big box on wheels that 65 years later, and much larger, will be mocked as the Chevy Subdivision. In Wolfsburg, Germany, the Volkswagen factory is completed. In Japan, the Toyoda Loom Works opens an auto division, Toyota.