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From 1896 until the 1930s, showmen would travel the country staging wrecks at state fairs.
Railroads tracking their cars was where the first use of barcodes.
U.S. traffic deaths rose 7% last year, the biggest increase in 13 years even though people drove fewer miles due to the coronavirus pandemic, the government's road safety agency reported Thursday.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration blamed the increase on drivers taking more risks on less-congested roads by speeding, failing to wear seat belts, or driving while impaired by drugs or alcohol.
An estimated 38,680 people died in traffic crashes last year, the most of any year since 2007, the agency said in releasing preliminary numbers. Final numbers normally come out in the fall.
The increase came even though the number of miles traveled by vehicle fell 13% from 2019.
It turns out that the repair and reliability of Teslas has proven quite good over the past 13 years of their existence - occasional battery failure and improvements needed in the serviceability of the battery system but not unlike engine failures in internal combustion cars.