The Weirdest-Looking Cars of All Time

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• If you need more range for your car’s remote key, just hold it to your head. It will double the range because the skull acts as an amplifier. Speaking of the head, engineers in Germany have created a “Brain Driver” that can drive a car using your thoughts alone. Let’s hope you don’t try singing along to the radio or letting your mind wander.
• The average car is made up of around 30,000 parts! It seems like a modern miracle, then, that everything works perfectly on most of the days that you drive it. That should also help ease your annoyance when something does go wrong, and your mechanic is able to fix it. There are a lot of parts to sift through!
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.