This lecture helps to see the history of the automobile more broadly than the usual set of dates and models. The conversation will connect technology, everyday life, urban culture, and early engineering ideas that today sound modern again. Instead of a dry overview - a lively route from the first cars to electric vehicles and a changing lifestyle. The automobile has long become a familiar part of everyday life, but the path to it was much more winding than it seems at first glance. This lecture offers a look at the history of transport as a chain of bold engineering searches, cultural changes, and unexpected returns to ideas that once were ahead of their time. It will discuss the first cars of the late 19th - early 20th century, early electric vehicles, front-wheel drive, hybrid systems, and why many solutions that today are perceived as signs of the future appeared much earlier.