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• Dashboards are important these days since they hold all the display and input information for the driver, as well as safety features like passenger airbags. Back in the day, however, dashboards served a different purpose. They were a piece of wood on the front of horse-drawn carriages, and it prevented mud splatter from getting on the driver.
• Speeding tickets in Switzerland and Finland are assessed as a daily fee and linked to your salary. The more you make, the more you pay. The greater over the speed limit you are, the greater the number of days you are fined. This led to the most expensive speeding ticket in the world: a nearly $1,100,00 Swiss fine.
• Rolls-Royce is known for its high quality and bespoke approach to auto manufacturing. Buyers work hand-in-hand with the automaker to customize the model they are buying. With such a strong focus on quality, it shouldn't come as a surprise that 75% of Rolls-Royce models ever sold are estimated to still be on the road. It also helps that their yearly sales record is only just over 5,000.
• The Census Bureau estimates that around 100,000 people are cited for speeding every day. The average speeding ticket is $150, so that generates around $5.5 billion per year in revenue. The highest speed ticked so far on record was 242 mph in Texas in 2003. He was driving a Koenigsegg CC8S.
• We all know that obesity is a health problem, but did you that it's a fuel economy problem as well? Americans are heavier than they've ever been. Since cars are carrying heavier payloads, aka us, that drags on fuel economy. For every extra pound, the U.S. wastes another 39 million gallons of fuel per year.