Cars

Cars have been innovated in many cool ways and many times. A car started out as a horse pulling a wagon and now it is metal shaped and has an engine so it moves by itself. You are about to learn some cool facts about cars like how they started and what they are today.

Cars were invented in 1886 by Carl Benz. The first car was called an automobile. The first automobile was a one person car and did not have a top so you were just sitting on a seat like a bicycle except it had three wheels and you did not have to pedal to move. It had levers to turn while now we have a steering wheel. It had a mortar so it would go by itself just like we do nowadays.

The automobile would have been a lot slower and you wouldn’t really be able to control the heat in the car and it would be really cold in the winter while in the summer it would be really hot. Then cars became more like cars now but not as fast and don’t have windows, also they were a lot slower than cars are now. Now cars can go up to 300+ mph. Also now you can control the heat of your car and there is a cab that protects you from wind, rain, snow, bugs and many other things. Cars now are made in different shapes and sizes. You can also choose the type of car you want so it will be easy to find. Also you can choose what color you want your car to be while back then it came in black. Now you can make your car make a noise from your phone or car key so you can find it in a parking lot. Back then all the cars were the same color and all of them looked the same so it was very hard just to find your car.

Modern cars have a ton of safety features so it is safe and you do not really have to worry about being in a car accident. Here are a few safety features that cars have now. Cars have seat belts, sensors so if you are not looking the car will automatically stop, there is also an air bag built into the steering wheel so if you are in a car crash it will deploy so your head doesn’t hit the steering wheel and don’t get a concussion. And one last thing, some cars know what the speed limit is, so if you try to go over the speed limit it will automatically slow down to the speed limit. Back then cars did not really have any safety features except for a seatbelt. Now there are GPS devices built into your car so you will almost never get lost. Cars back then did not even have a dashboard to put the GPS into. Some cars have CD players and screens so you can watch a movie on a long drive and do not have anything to do.

How have cars changed the world in positive ways? One reason cars have helped change the world in a positive way is they help us move from place to place in a quick way. Here is a positive way cars have helped change the world. Tractors have been here for a long time and they have helped farmers grow and collect crops way faster than having to do it by hand. There are many types of cars that were built just for driving off road. Ever since they were built, people have been driving on mountains, climbing up big hills just for fun and people really enjoy riding off road.

How have cars changed the world in negative ways? Here are a few ways cars have changed the world in negative ways. A bad thing about cars is that if someone gets injured really badly and needs to be rushed to the hospital by an ambulance, the ambulance could get stuck in traffic and not be able to get the injured person to the hospital in time. Also cars have caused a lot of pollution and have been a major impact to the environment by causing global warming from exhaust. Another way cars have changed the world in a negative way is there have been about 1.3 million deaths due to car accidents. Cars have killed a lot of wildlife by driving and hitting an animal.

It will be interesting to see how cars will be innovated in the future. Hopefully I will be able to live long enough so I can drive a car that floats! It would be really cool to do that. Hopefully we all live long enough to experience that.

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Accessed on March 8, 2023.