All GPS units sold in the civilian market have to be programmed to deactivate themselves if they detect they are travelling faster than 1200 MPH or are above 60,000 feet in altitude to prevent them being used in intercontinental ballistic missiles.
2
Car airbags kill 1 person for every 22 lives that they save.
80
There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
12
Henry Ford produced the model T only in black because the black paint available at the time was the fastest to dry.
33
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
55
The first hard drive available for the Apple II had a capacity of only 5 megabytes.
46
There are only 14 blimps in the world.
69
Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
56