Friday, October 28, 2011

Interesting/Fun Facts About Cars

1) The first cars did not have steering wheels. Drivers steered with a lever.


2) The New York City Police Department used bicycles to pursue speeding motorists in 1898.
   
3) The first speeding ticket was issued in 1902.
   
4) In 1916, 55 percent of the cars in the world were Model T Fords, a record that has never been beaten.  


5) The first gas gauge appeared in cars in 1922.
   
6) In 1923, 173 new inventions by women for cars had been reported. Among these inventions were a carburetor and an electric engine starter.
  
7)The first car radio was invented in 1929.
  
8) Buick introduced the first electric turn signals in 1938.
  
9) The Peanuts characters were first animated in 1957 for a Ford Fairlaine automobile commercial.   


10) Most American car horns beep in the key of F.
   
11) The automobile is the most recycled consumer product in the world today.


12)  Jamshedji Tata was the first Indian to own a car. He bought a car in 1901.


13)  World’s first motor-accident was in 1769. The vehicle is still preserved in the Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Metiers in Paris.
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14) An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.


15) The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. it was about 110 miles long.


16)Your chances of getting into a car crash while talking on a cellphone increases by 400%

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