“That tumultuous period opened the door of driving freedom for women, many of whom had no desire to relinquish that freedom after the war.”
THE FIRST
known woman driver was Bertha Benz, who in 1888 took her husband Karl Benz’s invention, the internal combustion-powered automobile, for a spin in Germany. Bertha neglected to tell Karl, but she brought her two sons along to push the car up hills during the
