The Rise and Fall of Tucker, The Car That Was 20 Years Ahead of Its Time — and Was Destroyed for It

In 1948, a man built the safest, most advanced car in American history. The government called it fraud. The media called it a pipe dream. Within two years, the company was gone. But here is what almost nobody tells you: every safety feature the prosecutors mocked as impossible was made mandatory within twenty years of his acquittal. His name was Preston Tucker, and this is the story the industry did not want told.