Route 66 could be getting a major upgrade, turning the once highly travel vacation route into a solar-powered, glowing superhighway.

The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has announced plans to upgrade a small stretch of the historic roadway, which originally stretched from Chicago to California.

The project is in partnership with Solar Roadways, the creators of specially-engineered, solar-powered panels which can support the weight of cars. The octagon-shaped panels feature built-in LEDs to create light-up road markings and can be used to generate electricity to donate back to the grid.

Automakers are rolling out more advanced connected-car technologies as the market’s desire to connect continues to grow. Luckily for us, expensive luxury brands are not the only ones that stepping up their game.

So if you’d like your next car to be a more connected car, here are 9 tech features to look for!

When the first electric car was put on the market, what did you think?

During childhood, a lot of kids dream of the day they get their driving license. However, some kids had a decade to go until that day came. So what did they do in the meantime?

They played with car toys!

Race car noises and fire truck sirens filled the home and allowed the imaginations of children to go wild.

Once the day the toys became obsolete, they were either donated, thrown away, or stored for sentimental reasons. And for those that saved any of these 12, you may have a good chunk of change just sitting in your attic.

1. Stompers - Stompers on Ebay are listed with a Buy-It-Now price anywhere from $10 to $100, depending on the rarity and the condition. The big rig models seem to be some of the most valuable and unopened models, still sealed in cellophane, can fetch several hundred dollars.

“SLOW DOWN!”

“SPEED UP!”

“WATCH OUT!”

These are all common 2-word phrases that I’m sure we’ve almost all heard once we turned 16 years old, and some of us are still hearing today.  But for those who may be experiencing this for the first time as new drivers, we wanted to get our fans’ and followers’ best advice for the latest rookies on the road.

Check out what they had to say!