The article discusses the Genesis of the concept "car", which is now transformed into the notion of designating the vehicle. The nature of the car and the reflection of this nature as a concept is detected in the culture of the Ancient world in the process of mythological knowledge. The cosmic order of the world, expressed in the movements of celestial bodies were perceived and shaped by man as the conceptual understandings of the movement projected on the device's earthly life. In the philosophical theories of the Ancient world attempts logical definition of the concepts of motion and self motion. In the Renaissance formed the humanist paradigm considers man as a Creator expressing concepts of motion and self-movement in technical self-propelled vehicles. In novouredeni the culture of individual creativity and self-movement as the development of individual abilities was objectiveanalysis in self-propelled vehicles, and then shifts to a utilitarian interpretation of the study results in the liberation of man from physical labor. Today, the dualism of natural and artificial in the form of the principle of self-movement is expressed clearly in the car as the subject, giving full opportunity for the manifestation of creative activity.