When the car learned to drive – Diepresse.com
With a humorous elegance, Ronald Reng tells of the difficult beginnings of the automobile – lively like a first exit with two horsepower.
« /> Ronald Reng: « He doesn’t know Mr. Benz, says Mr. Daimler », Piper-Verlag, 272 pages, 23.95 euros
The obituaries on the internal combustion engine have long been written in the middle of the climate crisis, when the German author Ronald Reng is reminiscent of the miraculous beginnings of the automotive. « He doesn’t know Mr. Benz, says Mr. Daimler, » says the story of two ingenious technicians who changed the world with their inventions. The two gentlemen never made the comparatively small step together.
Instead, Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler worked less than 150 kilometers apart on the same idea. « The self -driving car will make mankind unimaginable progress, » explains Benz. In 1886 he registered the first automobile, lovingly called « Benzine » in the family. The vehicle drove with wound gasoline, refueled in the pharmacy. Two years earlier, Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach constructed the first compact internal combustion engine.
