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Cars
and Driving
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On average there is about 3,000 feet of electrical wiring in
every car. |
If you drove at 100mph for four years you would still not cover
every stretch of road in the USA. |
Car airbags explode at 200 miles per hour. |
Since the 1970's microchips have doubled in power and halved
in price. If the same thing happened to cars then a Rolls Royce
would do 100,000 miles to the gallon and would only cost you £25
for a brand new one! |
British Petroleum makes a profit of £3,800.00 per second! |
On average a human being spends two weeks of their entire lives
waiting for traffic lights to change. |
The first person to be killed in an auto accident in the United
States was Henry H. Bliss, a 68-year-old real estate broker.
On September 14, 1899, in New York City, Mr. Bliss stepped
from a streetcar, turned to assist a woman passenger, and was
hit by a cab. |
The 1st automobile racetrack in the US was the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway which consists of 3 million cobblestones. |
In 1916, 55 percent of the cars in the world were Model T Fords,
a record that has never been beaten. |
In 2003, 17,013 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes
in the United States. This amounts to one death almost every
half-hour. |
The city with the most Rolls Royce's per capita is Hong Kong. |
The first product Motorola started to develop was a record
player for automobiles. At the time, the most known player
on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
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