World's first car crash! 1769

A reconstruction of the world's first "car" crash in 1769. This was Cugnot and his 3-wheeled "Fardier a vapeur". For more information on his vehicle see http://www.3wheelers.com/cugnot.html

(I've had this video for a few years on my hard drive and I'm not sure where it came from, so hope who's ever video it is, doesn't mind.)

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• cugnot
• car
• crash
• steam.
• 3-wheeler
• trike

[eb62224]

one small little problem............the was no video cameras in the 1700 hundreds!!

[reliantregal]

@eb62224 - Hence why this is a reconstruction of thta event!! ;)

[CaptBubble]

Trevithick's 1st steam carriage was driven on the roads in 1801. In 1802 his 2nd was used to carry passengers in London. There were many steam cars and carriages BEFORE the Benz, and there was even Siegrfired Markus's PETROL powered car in Austria before the Benz. Benz did NOT invent the car, but they were the first to put cars into production.

[reliantregal]

@CaptBubble - You're right. In the UK in 1884 there was also Butler's Petrol Cycle that was exhibited two years before Benz and was also the first usage of the word "Petrol".

[benzyeap]

1769yrs have video camera?

[motlencore89]

most epic crash ever at 2mph.

[crazyiphone4]

Lame

[Striplights1980]

0:27 It's a wonder he didn't end up getting 3rd degree burns.

[Striplights1980]

I wonder how much it cost to insure???

[deccno]

@eb62224 yeah right sorry

[eb62224]

@deccno it was the 18th century but it's the 17- hundreds

[deccno]

@eb62224 its the 18th century.

[CaptBubble]

@hunterziegelmann My Trojan car has no flywheel, but it is a car and I drive it freely on roads and motorways! Film, Video and photography did not exist when Cugnot's Carriage became the first ever self-propelled car. It was indeed primitive by OUR standards, but revolutionary in its time. 32 years Trevithick and others had made vast improvements to steam engines and carriages making them into useful vehicles, but everything has to start somewhere!

[CaptBubble]

@JBofBrisbane That's right, but a car does not need to have an IC engine to be a car! Throughout the car's history they have been powered by steam, electricity and even jet and rocket engines. The type of engine does not define a car. If it is powered, has more than 2 wheels and carries a person on land then it is a car, "car" being short for carriage. There's no denying the historical importance of Benz, but he did not invent cars.

[JBofBrisbane]

@TheSomethingIsh - Maybe the f#$%ing heavy boiler hung out ahead of the front wheel had something to do with that.

[JBofBrisbane]

@CaptBubble - the Benz trcycle is usually described as the first car designed to be driven by an internal-combustion engine, as opposed to a formerly horse-drawn carriage fitted with one.