5 car popular knowledge, all of them interesting children

"Car" origin of the name

In ancient China long "car" the term refers to the use of horse-drawn mule sedan chair. When Western auto poured into China, when it is closed in the popular square car of the West. At that time the shape of ancient China's car "car", as can the glory. So, people will then car called "car."

The steering wheel is not round

At first glance steering wheel is round, in fact, hidden steering shaft non-circular center of the steering wheel, steering shaft closer to the driver, this design can make more legroom for the driver, while driving when the step-off or avoid the brake wheel in contact with the legs, to improve traffic safety; hand driver on and off more convenient, this design there is a large field of view to make it easier for the driver to watch the dashboard.

Therefore, when the steering wheel is rotated 180 field of view becomes smaller dashboard condition occurs. For higher sports car handling requirements, the steering wheel will be designed as oval-like, and will greatly reduce the required turning angle of rotation, more convenient handling vehicle driving, driver view more open.

It is made of a resin tank

Tank cars were originally iron, very strong, very heavy, and can only be a square box shape, easy to make shaped structure. And iron tank in the event of a crash, can cause a spark, a fire hazard. Slowly, the iron tank was eliminated, there are still a few low-end models with iron tank, just to save money.

Resin fuel tank, due to the characteristics of the material, can be free to design the shape of the chassis modeling, optimization of vehicle weight, while its light quality, strong degree of collision when there is no problem, will not fall apart, it is now mainstream.

Rear fog lamps can not open a separate

Front fog lamps and rear fog lamps as particularly dazzling, used only in low light will not "shake blind" with an oncoming vehicle and pedestrian. It is not designed to open a separate function, just like the high beam is turned on only Akira not alone is a reason. You need to open the revelation wide lights, front and rear fog lamps can be opened, which is the minimum condition.

Car tire change history of hardware is the name of businessman

A hardware businessman crazy to try all kinds of material mixed into rubber "to engage in research and development," he finally debt and thus the cell in New York. Winter was shivering with cold, he holds the hands of a sulfur mixed with rubber ball accidentally fell into the stove.

Other rubber balls cool down, no longer found because a low temperature but the rubber ball hard and brittle, but has better flexibility and toughness. Since then, he forever changed the world rubber industry. And this deranged young man named Charles Goodyear.

Car rear-view mirror is not as big

Car rear-view mirror is not as large on both sides, the general left rear-view mirror will be relatively larger. Because the mirror is a convex mirror, a side mirror on the driver is large, a small curvature, and the other side of the mirror is small, but a large curvature, so that the driver's right and left sides of the field of view can be substantially consistent.

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