When cars were first invented, they were little more than what they were initially called: horseless carriages. Designers simply took an existing design that was commonly available and familiar to their target audience and inserted an internal combustion engine into it. Looking at old pictures of these first models you can see a certain innocent charm to them, as if the people designing and building them had no idea about where these new inventions were going to go, and how they would revolutionize America.
And for a while, it worked. The early engines had only a few horsepower, and thus speeds and performance of the mechanical engines were more or less identical to animal power they replaced. Unfortunately, as technology progressed, many carmakers failed to anticipate the changes new power plants would have on the frames they put them in, and accidents began to occur.
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There are some cars that can take your breath away with their overwhelming looks. On the other hand, there exist some cars with designs that are very mundane and ordinary, while some car designs can amaze you with their oddities and unusualness. Here is the list of 5 cars with weird designs:
1. Mercedes-Benz Count Trossi SSK
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There are seemingly endless factors that can potentially contribute to traffic accidents. The ones that get the most attention in the media are those that involve modern technology and thus spark debate. But while devices such as cell phones certainly do act as a distraction to drivers on the road, there are other more fundamental things that can completely change the way traffic flows and seriously lessen or increase the number of traffic fatalities each year.
Road design is one of these endlessly important factors that can completely change the everyday safety level of a commute. Hours of labor by skilled engineers, scientists and statisticians go into road design for major thoroughfares. Road design includes:
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