{"id":111664,"date":"2017-11-28T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:12:50","slug":"nicholas-cugnot-first-car-and-first-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/28\/nicholas-cugnot-first-car-and-first-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Cugnot &#8211; The First Car and the First Accident."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<p>The first steam powered vehicle was built by the French military  engineer, Nicholas Cugnot in 1769. This 3-wheeled steam machine ran for  only 15 minutes and at the end of that short space of time, Cugnot  became the world\u2019s first car crash victim. Unfortunately he drove the  vehicle into a brick wall.<\/p>\n<p>Cugnot was however not badly hurt and  not at all disheartened. He worked on the vehicle, improved the steering  and the braking system until it was capable of carrying four people at  two miles an hour. He won a contract from the French War Ministry to  build a much larger vehicle as a military carrier.<\/p>\n<p>But Cugnot\u2019s  road tests of his vehicle proved so dangerous to life and limb that,  after several further crashes, he became the first man to be jailed for  dangerous driving.<\/p>\n<p>His military vehicle was never put into service, and in 1804 he died in obscurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first steam powered vehicle was built by the French military engineer, Nicholas Cugnot in 1769. This 3-wheeled steam machine ran for only 15 minutes and at the end of that short space of time, Cugnot became the world\u2019s first car crash victim. Unfortunately he drove the vehicle into a brick wall. Cugnot was however [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}