Reading too many functional articles can make people feel aesthetically tired. In order to relieve everyone’s pressure on reading, the editor today will popularize some relatively unpopular and interesting ones.carKnowledge for everyone. I hope you will like it!
1. China is one of the countries that have received the least car recalls
In the automobile manufacturing industry, a quarter of the world's cars are made in China each year. In 2016, China's annual automobile production was 28.19 million. Although China is the country with the largest car sales in the world, it is one of the countries with the least number of recalls each year.
2. The longest highway mileage in the world is China
The world's first highway (Cologne to Bonn line) was built by the Germans in 1932, but China has the longest highway mileage in the world, and the highway mileage has reached 136,000 kilometers. The construction of the highway was proposed by Adolf Hitler, mainly for the needs of wartime during World War II. The 34-meter-wide four-lane highway required for the construction of the highway is to accommodate the 30-meter-wide fighter aircraft taking off and landing. A reflective concrete pillar is set up every 200 meters, which is also a navigation requirement.
3. The traffic lights are actually related to women
In the 19th century, Britain was in the period of the Industrial Revolution, and the order was not as orderly as it is now. Traffic accidents are common. In order to solve the problem of traffic chaos, British mechanic De Hart was inspired by the red and green dresses of women in York City, England. , Two gas traffic signal lights in green, the color conversion of the signal lights at that time can only be realized by manual operation. Subsequently, people continued to upgrade traffic lights. Finally, in 1918, the first red, green, and yellow signal lights appeared in New York in 1918.
4. The origin of the name of the car
Long before the invention of the automobile, there was the term Sedan. It refers to a luxury carriage used by European aristocrats. It is not only exquisitely decorated, but also enclosed. Later, when Ford introduced the Model T, the car changed from an open to a closed one. In order to give consumers a psychological satisfaction, Ford also called his "closed car" Sedan. Since then, ordinary cars used by ordinary people to travel are called Sedan.
In ancient times, a car refers to a sedan chair with a horse drawn by a mule. When a large number of Western cars entered China, it was precisely when the enclosed square car became popular in the West. At that time, the shape of the car was just as glorious as the "car" in ancient my country, so people called the car at that time as a car.
5. The car with the longest mileage, exceeding 4.8 million kilometers
Under normal circumstances, a family car is generally replaced after driving 200,000 kilometers. Nowadays, family cars have to be scrapped after driving 600,000 kilometers. But there is a car that wants to subvert your cognition. This Volvo P1800S, which was manufactured in 1996, has run 4.8 million kilometers as of September 2013 and has become the longest car in the Guinness Book of World Records.
6.publicIt’s not just cars that sell well
If you think that Volkswagen sells famous cars only by selling cars, then you are wrong. In fact, Volkswagen sells sausages in addition to cars. In 2014, Volkswagen's processing plant produced 7.8 million sausages, which is higher than the sales of cars. Volkswagen not only sells its cars well, but also its sausages. Volkswagen’s sausages are very famous in Europe.
7. The first drunk driver in China was the eunuch
After the car entered China, no one in the imperial court knew how to drive. In order to make Cixi happy, a eunuch named Sun Fuling learned to drive and often took Cixi to play. Once, he was drunk and killed an eunuch, and this traffic accident became the first case of drunk driving in my country.
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