Perhaps in the second half of the century, when electric mobility will have taken over and, above all, there will be more and more self-driving cars on the road, the concept of the 'big road' or of itineraries to be enjoyed behind the wheel of your own car will seem very far away.
It will almost be a memory to be relived through augmented reality on the on-board screens instead of the windshield, the windows or the plen-air if you are lucky enough to travel in a convertible.
But luckily we are still in 2022, the auto-robots are only seen in the promotional films of high tech companies and the only problem that can 'divide' us from the views to be observed through the windshield are the traces of the gnats when moving against the sun. .
Therefore, the Great Trips on the Great Roads are welcome, to which Ansa Motori wants to dedicate a few episodes.
Well-known roads, such as the Aurelia, the Stelvio pass or the iconic Route 66 that crosses the United States from coast to coast.
Or far to reach but equally capable of stimulating the desire for discovery and exploration, such as the Ring Road which - changing its route in summer compared to winter - allows you to travel the entire perimeter of Iceland, touching the Arctic Circle.
And, again, the Carrettera Panamericana (an almost impossible dream of adventurous drivers) which connects the Americas from North to South from Alaska with the extreme tip of Chile, not to forget equally exotic and demanding itineraries such as the Tienmen Road in China and those of the Transylvania Mountains in Romania.
But talking about Grandi Strade allows us once again to increase our pride as Italians, given that from the marvelous works of the Romans - who created the first road network on the Continent - up to the engineering creativity of 1900, with the creation of the Milano Laghi , the world's first real toll highway.
With the Grandi Strade we will also have the opportunity to talk about companies, almost always in the Italian flag, which in turn have traced Great Itineraries, such as the victory of the Pirelli-fitted Itala 30/45 of Scipione Borghese, Ettore Guizzardi and Luigi Barzini in the legendary Beijing. -Paris of 1907.