Did you know?
- The average car contains over 3,000 feet of electrical wires.
- Despite the harm some cars do to the environment, the automobile is actually the most recycled product in the world.
- Cell phone maker Motorola got its start producing record players for cars. The company's name comes from a combination of "motor" and "Victrola."
- Until 1973, whale oil was used in the transmissions of many cars.
- The longest traffic jam of all time occurred in 1980, between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute. The jam stretched an astounding 175 km.
- An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate and deploys at nearly 500 km an hour.
- Over the course of his/her lifetime, the average driver will swear roughly 32,000 times while driving.
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