2016 was a wild year in transportation ¬– from self-driving cars to smarter cities – WIRED looks back at some of the biggest stories about getting around.

Designers tackled some of the most pressing issues of our time in 2016. From equality to climate change, here are WIRED's most inspirational design stories of the year.

WIRED predicts the biggest trends for the year ahead. In this segment Alex Davies lays out the five biggest disruptions coming to the world of transport.

In our new series to kick off 2017, WIRED predicts the biggest trends for the year ahead. In this segment, Matt Simon explains how businesses are still going to go green, even in the face of renewed climate change denialism.

WIRED predicts the biggest trends for the year ahead. In this segment, Matt Simon looks at how the drug crisis in the US is being reframed as a health problem instead of a criminal one.

Drones will go into wide commercial use in 2017. Package deliveries are a couple of years away but expect a lot more drone media coverage.

It's unlikely that you'll buy a VR rig in 2017, instead you'll go 'VRing' by buying a ticket to a virtual gaming theme park or experience.

"Fist Fight" star Tracy Morgan answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself.

Elmo, Big Bird, Count von Count, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie, Grover, Rosita, Abby Cadabby, and Oscar the Grouch hang with WIRED to answer the Internet's most searched questions about 'Sesame Street' and themselves. New episodes of Sesame Street’s 47th season air every Saturday on HBO, and viewers can watch Sesame Street everyday on HBO Family and PBS Kids.

"Kong: Skull Island" star Samuel L. Jackson answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself.

'Life' stars Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal waste some time with WIRED and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

'Gifted' star Chris Evans takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself. 'Gifted' co-star Mckenna Grace joins Chris, and together they find out that the Internet is obsessed with Chris Evans' driving skills.

'Going in Style' stars Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

'Colossal' stars Jason Sudeikis and Anne Hathaway answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

'How To Be a Latin Lover' stars Salma Hayek and Eugenio Derbez answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

'Snatched' stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

Yasmin Green leads a team at Google which has developed tools to help journalists stay secure in authoritarian regimes, to combat cyber bullying, and to help people before they become radicalized by extremist ideology. At the WIRED business conference, Green shared the company's strategies to sway ISIS recruits before it's too late.

Five years ago, as its voice recognition tech took off, Google realized it would have to double its server space to handle even three minutes of speech from every Android user. Even Google couldn't afford that. So Urs Hözle and his team built a super chip to parse all that data more efficiently.

Google is poised to begin a grand experiment in using machine learning to widen access to healthcare. If it is successful, millions of people with diabetes could avoid losing their sight. Lily Peng from Google Brain explained at the WIRED Business Conference how technology like this would help doctors, not replace them.

Speaking at the WIRED Business Conference, Amazon SVP of Devices, David Limp confessed that if Amazon is to continue to thrive in the future, it has to consider itself an AI company.

Ask Norman Foster what, if anything, he’d like to change about Apple’s new headquarters, and he’ll need a moment to think. The famed architect, whose firm spent the last eight years perfecting plans for Apple’s massive campus, is mostly pleased with the results. But there is one thing he'd change.

At the WIRED Business Conference, Jennifer Doudna, Co-Inventor of CRISPR-Cas9, shared some of the ways the gene editing tool is already changing agriculture.

'Despicable Me 3' stars Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

'The House' stars Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

Politician and activist Al Gore answers the Internet's most searched questions about climate change.

"The Dark Tower" stars Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

Introducing HardWIRED, a new video series about the robots that are poised to take over the world. In the first episode WIRED explores what qualifies as a robot in the first place.

Nothing in robotics is as unintentionally hilarious as watching a biped fall. But roboticists are making progress- like with this machine named Cassie.

The LEGO Ninjago Movie stars Dave Franco, Fred Armisen, and Kumail Nanjiani take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

'American Made' star Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

'Only the Brave' stars Josh Brolin and Taylor Kitsch take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. 'Only the Brave' premieres in theaters October 20th.

For WIRED's November cover about love in the time of robots the magazine turned to Elastic, the design firm behind the opening credits for Game of Thrones, True Detective, and Westworld.

'Suburbicon' stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

Nick Jonas takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about himself. What kind of car does Nick Jonas drive? Has he ever been in a fight? What do his tattoos say? Nick answers all of these and more!

Stranger Things stars Gaten Matarazzo and Joe Keery take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about Stranger Things and themselves. Joe and Gaten answer hard-hitting questions like, "Is Gaten Matarazzo now?" and "Is Joe Keery legit?"

Star Wars: The Last Jedi stars Mark Hamill, Laura Dern, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Domhnall Gleeson and Kelly Marie Tran take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about Star Wars and themselves.

Ferdinand star John Cena answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself and his character, Ferdinand the Bull. Did John Cena write his own theme song? What's his diet? What if John Cena played Minecraft? John answers all of these and more!

Father Figures stars Owen Wilson and Ed Helms answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves.

"Bright" stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. What is Will Smith's IQ? Who did Joel Edgerton play in Star Wars? Who is Will Smith's best friend?

Introducing the all-new Backchannel, Ideas section, and WIRED Guides.

Black Panther stars Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o and Michael B. Jordan take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the Internet's most searched questions about Black Panther and themselves.

Ben Gomes (VP, Search Engineering) and Chris Haire (Product Manager, Autocomplete) from Google's search team take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the Internet's most searched questions about Google autocomplete and search.

"Death Wish" star Bruce Willis takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the Internet's most searched questions about himself. Did Bruce Willis go to college? Was Bruce Willis in the military? Was Bruce Willis Batman??

"Gringo" stars Charlize Theron and David Oyelowo answer the Internet's most searched questions about themselves. Is David Oyelowo ACTUALLY a prince? Where did Charlize Theron grow up? Will David be the first black James Bond? Does Charlize Theron have a middle name? Charlize and David answer all these questions, and more!

The Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone is all about the camera -- dual aperture lens, 12 megapixel sensor and get this, an astounding 960 frames per second slow motion video.

Tomb Raider star Alicia Vikander takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answers the internet's most searched questions about herself. How did Alicia train to become the new Lara Croft? Does Alicia Vikander have an Instagram? Is Lara Croft based on a real person? Alicia answers all these questions, and more! Tomb Raider in theaters March 16, 2018

This Is Us stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore and Justin Hartley take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the internet's most searched questions about This Is Us and themselves.

"Love, Simon" star Jennifer Garner takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the internet's most searched questions about herself. How many languages does Jennifer speak? Does Jennifer have pierced ears? Is she related to James Garner? LOVE, SIMON hits theaters Friday, March 16th.

Pacific Rim Uprising star Charlie Day takes the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the internet's most searched questions about himself. Does Charlie Day wear eyeliner? Where did he meet his wife? Does he have a PhD? Watch to find out the answers to all these questions, and more!

Pacific Rim Uprsing stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Burn Gorman, and Charlie Day answer the 50 most Googled questions about Kaiju. Pacific Rim: Uprising comes out March 23rd, 2018