Automobile is invented by Ferdinand Verbiest who was a member of a Jesuit mission China around 1672. It was a small steam-powered vehicle and the gift for the Chinese Emperor. It couldn't carry a driver or a passenger, but it was the first working automobile. After this event, lots of tries to develope the automobile. In 1888, Karl Benz started to mass-produce the gasoline vehicles. Invention of automobile affects human life a lot. Before invention of automobile, it took long time to go to other places. But as automobiles invented the time we spend to move reduced. There are some weak points of automobile, such as air pollution and traffic accidents, but it makes us comfortable.
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