Minton didn't ride a lime, didn't ride a bird, didn't jump and didn't spin. On the contrary, this news can be traced back to July 1939, when motorcycle scooters first flourished in the United States. Before the Taobao car in Silicon Valley was flooded with cheap rabbit scooters in American cities, around 19 15, when it hit the sidewalk, the autopilot first disturbed it.
The online bicycle museum explained that autopilot, the first mass-produced electric scooter in the United States, "is basically an enlarged children's scooter with an engine mounted on the front wheel." Although some reports say that its speed can reach 35 miles per hour, the steering column controls the clutch and brake. The museum points out that when it is pushed, the scooter becomes "unstable" up to 20 miles per hour. Later, Everready Battery Company bought this set of equipment and produced a battery-driven self-driving car.
The concept of this scooter can be traced back to at least one century before 18 17, the German Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun. In his early two rounds of debut, the concept of speed was quickly stripped to bicycles, tricycles and scooters. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, vehicles have been motorized for decades, and rear pedal drive appeared in Scotland around the 1940s. /kloc-at the turn of the 0/9 century, battery-driven machines began to enter the market; 1895, Ogden Bolton Jr. obtained an American patent for a battery-driven bicycle.
But the museum said that autonomous driving (and its first-generation predecessor motorcycle) can be regarded as "the true ancestor of modern motorcycle". At that time, there were almost no motor vehicle safety regulations on the roads. 190 1 year, Connecticut promulgated the first national traffic law to regulate motor vehicles. About ten years later, when self-driving cars came out, new york also introduced a drunk driving law, and the traffic lights were still 15 years.
Arthur Hugo Cecil Gibson's "self-propelled vehicle" was patented on July 25th, and the inventor Arthur Hugo Cecil Gibson obtained the design of "self-propelled vehicle" on 19 16 (US patent 1925 14 These rides were made by American Autopilot Company, which was established in 19 13. 19 15 autumn, the company opened a shop in Long Island City, Queens, new york. Jeffrey N. Stein, honorary senior historian of new york State Museum, said that at first, the bicycle media at that time called self-driving cars "freaks". However, this kind of autonomous driving took longer than expected, perhaps because it attracted a large number of users. As its advertising copy shows, its marketing scope is very extensive:
"Autoped is an ideal short-distance transportation for business people or professionals to and from the office; For women to shop or make phone calls; For doctors to make routine calls or answer emergency calls; For older children, it is faster to go for an outing or go to school; Servants are sent to handle affairs; Grocery stores, pharmacies and other businesses quickly deliver goods; Commercial salesmen visit enterprises; Employees commute; Collectors; Repairman; Messenger, and anyone who wants to save money, time and effort. Everyone will enjoy the fortress and fun of autonomous driving. Everett Sheehan Park 19 16.
Self-driving girls, just as their modern similar products have been attacked as elite toys, self-driving marketing undoubtedly has a little class element. 19 1 June 6, 2008, the advertisement published in Ice Hockey magazine was "Beware of the girl who was automatically dissected"-the picture shows a fashionable and rich white woman wearing a gorgeous hat and fur hanging around her neck. Hammings Daily explained: "If you are the kind of person who buys gifts at 19 16, which is equivalent to the Christmas directory of Huneman Marcus (maybe Hamache Schlemmer), then there is a body on your list. ",classic car market blog. But autonomous driving is not just a toy for the rich. Just like bicycles in the past, the appearance of motorcycles has promoted women's freedom and mobility, which makes the message of "beware of girls who drive automatically" more important. In Mashable, Chris Wilder tells the story of Florence Norman, a "feminist on a motorcycle" who rides her body to work in central London. At the same time, Amelia Earhart of the famous aviatrix company appeared many photos near California, even after the production stopped around 192 1. There is a photo of earhart on it. It is easy to imagine why one of the photos is titled: "In the near future, we are told that no one can walk at all. "
Ms Norman Florence 19 16 went to London to work for her motorcycle. (Paul Thompson /FPG/archive photos/Getty Images) also tried autonomous driving. Perhaps the best example is new york Post Office, which uses ultra-thin bus service to deliver mail. To the disappointment of the police, criminals saw their window of opportunity in the flexible machine and repositioned it as an escape tool. "A group of noisy young people soon frightened Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan," wrote the online bicycle museum, which highlighted Bogert people with interesting names on Long Island. The museum pointed out that the organization even used these machines to hold the yonkers Grand Prix, which was led by "legendary" fat burners. This is the first and last time.
Still like the ubiquitous travel bags that travel in Segway today, most machines are used for entertainment. Stein took a happy picture of two women taking part in an impromptu autonomous driving competition on the beach in Long Island. This photo was taken for Motorcycle Illustrated of 19 16. Historians point out that enterprises in California bought 50 machines before 19 17, so that they could "rent them out at beach resorts in the next season".
In the mid-1960s, four EMS postmen of the US Postal Service tried out new scooters and invested in environmental start-ups. The profitable business model is still developing. Through diplomatic means, the life of autonomous driving was eventually shortened by its bottom line. Erwin Terraga, the author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Motorcycles, told Stan, "Like all other motorcycles of that period, autonomous driving was not a commercial success." The experts he interviewed said that this problem may be related to the demand for such equipment. This car is more expensive than bicycles, but it doesn't provide a seat fortress for motorcycles. This self-driving car may be a little earlier than it provides. After the Great Depression broke out, Cushman Company began to make engines in the early 20th century, and started again where its predecessor left off, finding new uses in these thrifty pennies. As the Great Depression continued, the company was trapped by redundant husky engines, so it had an idea. 1936, it first introduced the Cushman automatic glider. "As a by-product of the 1929 disaster, this motorcycle was praised for its frugality," Circular World magazine later wrote because of its price and gasoline demand. One of the brochures even claimed that driving an automatic glider was "completely free" and added, "Why, it is actually cheaper than walking."
In the end, the automatic glider and its components were troubled by the same regulations, which sent Peter Minton to the traffic court with the number 1939. The era of "dangerous driving" in the early 20th century was accompanied by legislators trying to understand the early automobile era.
Amelia Earhart took a photo with a motorized scooter at 1935. (Corbis via Getty Images)《 *** * laments in 1907: "No one is concerned about the right to drive", which shows that "something similar to the French system is an ideal solution, which is to issue drivers with driver's licenses, provide them with business cards and punish them by revoking their driver's licenses." In 1930s, the United States needed to sentence the second or third serious crime to imprisonment, and the framework of such a system has arrived.
This sentence well illustrates that when the United States imposes stricter traffic regulations on young people, Cushman is once again facing serious financial problems. "Josh Simms recorded the evolution of cycling in Kutman.
It's easy to see how the era we are in now echoes the first scooter craze. "Today's start-ups are promoting their products. They follow the same strategy as cars: let them take to the streets and then try to supervise them. This strategy has also pushed the valuations of Uber and Raffles to billions of dollars, "Michael J. Cohen wrote for Timely on 20 18. But how these vehicles will operate is still unknown, because legislators once again play the role of catching up to regulate this round of riding.