These ten fast fun car facts are easy to memorize, so you can impress your friends and family. For instance, who knew the inventor of the windshield wiper was a woman, Mary Anderson? Settle in with a hot cup of coffee and get ready to soak up some cool car trivia, right here:
- In the movie Batman, Bruce Wayne drives a Lamborghini Murcielago. Murcielago is Spanish for “bat.”
- One car has some 30,000 parts and is 80 percent recyclable.
- Washington D.C. wins the prize worst traffic in the United States, with commuters spending 82 hours a year stalled in traffic.
- Of all the beautiful cars made by Rolls Royce, some 75 percent of them are still on the road.
- The first useable windshield wiper was invented by a woman, Mary Anderson, in 1903, but car manufacturers didn’t see the point. Cadillac was the first company to make windshield wipers standard equipment, in 1922.
- 1902 marks the year the first speeding ticket was issued. At that time, the maximum speed most cars could drive was only 45 mph.
- The first car was built in 1886 by German inventor Carl Benz, who called his creation, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.
- In the United States, a car is stolen every 45 seconds.
- A person spends some 5 months of their life sitting in a car at red lights.
- Kars4Kids has picked up more than 500,000 cars, since it began operations in 1995.
