The end to road rage, Panda Express and middle seats

"I'm always a hopeful kind of guy," says Bothwell, who has been in regular contact with Yoeli's design team for the past two years. "By 2010, I can see us having five or six X-Hawks in our fleet." But by then, Yoeli reckons, you may already have one in yours.

—From "Going Way Off Road," New York Times Magazine, Sept. 26, 2004

Six MIT studs are making more than just themselves look smart. Six years ago, I wrote a story for the New York Times Magazine about the race to create the first...