The Cars That Defined Our Year on the Road, Part One

As you sit here reading this website, robots are vying to take away one of life’s greatest pleasures: the pure thrill of driving a car. Fears that recreational driving will be outlawed anytime soon (or indeed ever) are wildly overblown, but it’s possible to imagine a time — albeit several decades away, at least — when humans no longer need to drive cars. And after that? Maybe most people won’t even want to drive. This year, that realization made us appreciate the