The automobile market continues with many daily fluctuations and changes in the continuous cycle of life. Each car is equipped with different techniques and technology, but not everyone understands everything about their car. There are quite interesting things about cars that you don’t know

Interesting things about cars that you didn’t know

The world of cars is not only a means of daily transportation, but hidden deep inside it also contains many interesting things that not everyone knows.

1. Did you know that there are about 1 billion cars in use on Earth? By 1950, there were about 53 million personal cars, this number continued to increase rapidly with 555 million cars in 1989, an increase of 10 times compared to 1950. According to experts predicting on Earth There will be about 2.5 billion cars circulating on Earth.

2. The number 30,000 is an average number to talk about the parts in a car. Furthermore, a modern car also requires 1000 and 3000 meters of electrical wire to connect electronic components, lights and engines.

3. A Smart car can hold 19 girls!

4. Are you sure the car you are using is always clean? In Russia, you can be criminally charged for driving a dirty car on the road.

5. Los Angeles is a county in the state of California , the number of residents living here is less than the number of cars they own.

6. Not everyone knows that 95% of a car’s life is its parking lot.

7. If you drive at 95 km/h for 6 months you can go from Earth to the Moon.

8. The longest distance in the world that a car can run is about 4,586,630 km.

9. Belonging to Southeast Asia, Thailand has very strict regulations, for example: If you wear revealing clothes while driving, you will be questioned by the police immediately. The price you have to pay is a slap on the wrist or exposed body part or you have to pay a fine of about 10 USD.

10. A long-standing car line like Rolls-Royce has a rate of 75% of the cars produced still circulating on the road.

11. Nowadays, almost every car is equipped with safety airbags, but not everyone knows that airbags can deploy at a speed of 40 milliseconds, faster than the blink of an eye when a collision occurs.

12. Which car do you think has the cheapest price in the world today? Up to now, the cheapest car in the world is the Tata Nano , which has a starting price of only about 2,500 USD (about 50 million VND) and still holds the top position in the list of cheapest car models in the world. Due to increased input costs, the cost of the car has also increased by about 3,000 USD.

13. Did you know that Saudi Arabia is a country that prohibits women from driving? According to the country’s law, all citizens need to have a driver’s license to participate in traffic, but driver’s licenses are not issued to women.

14. A new car will smell like a combination of 50 volatile organic compounds. That’s why every time people buy a new car, the first thing they think about is bottles of “fragrance oil” for the car.

15. The reason you can listen to the radio in your car is all thanks to Paul Galvin ‘s invention of the Motorola Radio in 1929.

16. Don’t think that “pots and jars” are the largest recycling industry in the world, but in reality, automobiles are the largest recycling industry in the world. There were nearly 13 million cars recycled in 1997 alone. It would be surprising if these cars were lined up in a row that could cause a traffic jam around the world.

17. Every year, about 83 million cars are produced, equivalent to 2.6 cars every second. But that number is not all as at least 1/3 of it is produced in China.

18. Every day, the world’s largest car manufacturer – Toyota produces 13,000 cars every day.

19. Do you know who was the first Vietnamese person to own a car? In 1907, Mr. Chau Van Tu, also known as Teacher Nam Tu, owned the first car in Vietnam.

20. Electric vehicles were transported to the Moon during the Apollo program in 1971-1972 for the astronauts’ mobility and were soon abandoned. It is known that there are currently 3 electric vehicles on the Moon called Lunar Roving Vehicle . The cost of these cars is about 37 million USD and is at the top of the list of the most expensive electric cars of all time.

21. “Spirit of Ecstacy” is the symbol of the Rolls-Royce automobile used since 1911. A special version of this symbol encrusted with diamonds costs up to 200,000 USD.

22. The highest Rolls-Royce ownership rate per capita in the world belongs to Hong Kong. Real estate tycoon Stephen Hung ordered 30 Roll-Royce Phantoms for $20 million in September 2014.

23. James Bond is a British fictional character created by writer Lan Fleming in 1953 and the first 3 cars he drove were Bentley Mark IV (in “From Russia with Love” in 1963), Aston Martin DB5 (in “Goldfinger” in 1964) and Lincoln Convertible (in “Thunderball” in 1964).

24. In the Knight Rider movie series, KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) was developed based on the Pontiac Trans Am .

25. The Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX that Takumi Fujiwara ‘s character in the anime Initial D drove is also known as the AE86 . You will occasionally see the appearance of the Subaru Impeza WRX STI Coupe Type R Verion V.

26. About 90% of car drivers will sing while driving.

27. It is certain that 12% of men who drive a car will not use turn signals.

28. On average, we spend 2 weeks of our lives waiting at traffic lights.

29. The first record speed was recorded by a Belgian driver on an electric car on February 18, 1898 with a speed of 63 km/h. The record for an electric car today is 437 km/h.

30. The death rate caused by cars is about 1/5000.

31. The 2012 Mia Electric car is the slowest car in the world with a time of 30 seconds that can accelerate from 0 – 100 km/h. In contrast, the 2012 Chevrolet Corvette Lingenfelter is 1.97 seconds.

32. The first traffic accident was on August 17, 1896 in London with a Roger Benz with a maximum speed of only 6 km/h.

33. The most expensive fine in the world belongs to a case of a Swedish tycoon with a fine of 1 million USD for a speed of 290 km/h on a Swiss road. It is known that this penalty is given according to a calculation proportional to income.

34. If you are having a headache about current gas prices, go to Turkmenistan to drive with 120 liters of fuel for free for a month.