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The World Of Cars

Alexandra Paul Many people think having a car at home is a necessity. For the very much reasons people will often buy more of them as a sign of prestige – because nothing says “I'm rich a.k.a. better than you are“ more than an extra thing which you perhaps do not actually need. The earliest people can trace back the history of cars, as in personal vehicles powered by the internal mechanism, is back to the 18th century. Seems so early if you compare it with the history of the human kind itself. Cars have been on this planet for not more than three centuries. The so-called modern humans , or Homo Sapiens if you will, have been on this planet for about 200 thousand years. If we look at the history of human kind as a period of 24 hours, cars made their first appearance about a half of one minute to midnight. It is quite impressive how long we had been surviving without cars. Now that the point has been made, just to clear it up – this is not an attempt of proving that cars