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16th century triple wheeled vehicle that moved at the speed of a walk.
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Internal combustion engine that was fueled by hydrogen
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The first gasoline powered combustion engine, which he placed on a pushcart, building four progressively more sophisticated combustion-engine cars over a 10-to-15-year span that influenced later cars.
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This automobile was powered by a single cylinder four-stroke engine by Karl Benz
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It was first used in the Cadillac company in 1912
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They used hydraulic systems pressure evenly applied to each wheel of the car.
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A Delaware company uses a thermal interrupter switch to create flashing turn signals.
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Karl Pabst designed the Jeep at workout in World War II.
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Ralph Teeter, a blind man sensing by his ears develops cruise control mechanism that a driver can set cars at steady speed.
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The injection system keeps a car's engine running at most efficiency.
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Originally it was for the driver side only but now today it appears to be on the front passenger's side as well.
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Technology called CDX-1 became the first car CD player, eventually supplanting cassette tapes, which had become old technology.
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General Motors launched connected cars with its OnStar system, which used your mobile phone to call 911 in an accident. Today the technology links with the phones’ GPS location to guide the emergency services straight to the car.
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The first hands-free bluetooth kit appeared in 2001. Later that year, an even better bluetooth technology came out that worked with speech recognition. These days bluetooth is integrated with the cars’ infotainment system.
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2020 is the projected release date of Google’s self-driving car, the Waymo. It completed its first driverless ride on public roads in 2015 in Austin Texas with a blind man behind the wheel.
