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First Gasoline Automobile
The first true automobile is the know to have been invented by Karl Benz. It is considered the first true automobile because it is a gasoline automobile that is powered by an internal combustion engine: three wheeled, four cycled, engine and chassis that form a single unit.
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Quadricycle
Henry Ford's famous Model T was assembled in ninety-three minutes thanks to his improved assembly line. Ford made his first car, called the "Quadricycle," in June 1896.
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Electric Cars
In the early part of the 19th century, innovators in Hungary, the Netherlands and the United States began toying with the idea of a battery-powered vehicle and created some of the first small-scale electric cars. It wasn’t until the second half of the 19th century that French and English inventors built some of the first practical electric cars. By 1900, electric cars were accounting for around a third of all vehicles on the road.
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Mercedes
The 1901 Mercedes, designed by Wilhelm Maybach, deserves credit for being the first "modern" motorcar. With its thirty-five-horsepower engine weighing only fourteen pounds per horsepower, and its top speed of fifty-three miles per hour. By 1909 Daimler employed around seventeen hundred workers to produce fewer than a thousand cars per year.
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Model T
Ford introduced the Model T in 1908 and it was a success. About 15 million Model Ts had been manufactured by 1927.
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Cruise Control
The Teetor's family story is that the jerky foot of Harry Lindsay, Teetor’s friend and often chauffeur, originally inspired cruise control. There were probably other inspirations though. Teetor wanted a speed mechanism controlled by the motorist that once reaching a specific speed, the motorist’s foot would feel resisting pressure from the accelerator as a warning.
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Seat Belts
Nils Bohlin is known to have invented the three-point seat belt in 1959. The 1950's were a time when pilots and racing drivers wore harnesses, but seat belts took the form of a basic two-point waist restraint. In crashes, sometimes these did more harm than good. Volvo decided that the invention was so significant, it had more value as a free life saving tool than something to profit from.
https://www.arnoldclark.com/newsroom/265-why-volvo-gave-away-the-patent-for-their-most-important-invention -
Airbags
In 1973, Oldsmobile Toronado was the first car with a passenger airbag intended for sale to the public. General Motors later offered an option to the general public of driver side airbags. Early airbags system had design issues resulting in fatalities caused solely by the airbags. In 1988 Chrysler became the first company to offer airbag restraint systems as standard equipment.
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Automatic Brakes
Automatic braking systems combine sensors and brake controls to help prevent high-speed collisions. Some automatic braking systems can prevent collisions altogether, although most of them are designed to simply reduce the speed of a vehicle before it colides with something. Because high-speed crashes are more likely to be fatal than low-speed collisions, automatic braking systems can save lives.
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Day Time Running Lights
The purpose of DRLs is to make cars more noticeable when it is foggy or hard to see out. General Motors announced that it will build daytime running lights into more than half a million 1995 cars and trucks. The public will first notice them on Chevrolet Corsicas and Berettas, S-series pickups and Geo Metros. By 1997, all new General Motor cars and trucks were traveling U.S. roads with lights shining in the daytime.
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Smart Key Fobs
Over the past couple decades, smart keys have made getting in and starting your car so much easier. You can simply leave the fob in your pocket. And as you approach your car the doors will unlock by you simply touching the handle. Once you are inside the engine hums to life with an easy push of a button. -
Tesla Model X
The Tesla Model X is known to be the safest SUV ever. Built as an electric vehicle, the body, restraints and battery technology provide a very low chance of injury. Model X has seating for up to seven and comes in the five classic colors: Pearl White Multi-Coat, Solid Black, Midnight Silver Metallic, Deep Blue Metallic, Red Multi-Coat.
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Apple Car
Although it is not official there are rumors about Apple trying to build a car with advanced driving capabilities. They are trying to make the car more advanced than present cars so that it is safer than any other car. -
Flying Cars
Although not invented flying cars have been talked about for a very long time. Our minds have not yet been able to figure out the statistics of levitating large amounts of metal traveling at fast speeds we are working on figuring out the mathematics. -
Teleportation
Hopefully we are able to crack the secret to teleportation at sometime in our future and by then we probably won't need cars because it will much faster just to teleport every where. I think it would be amazing to teleport every where so then we wouldn't have to wait on a sibling or parent to drive us somewhere if we are unable to drive.
