Early Autos

America's passion for inventions has always been high.One of those inventions were the automobiles. in the early 20th century.
The early automobiles were popular. However, they were very expensive and only rich people could buy them. They easily broke down, and they could carry little weight. In addition, automobiles needed to be fixed a lot. There were no tow trucks to help. Yet, the early autos weren't as used as the horse carriages.


Moreover, most of the people saw the cars as simple and uncomfortable vehicles. Many years passed and more varieties of cars were made like the steam cars and the electric cars.
The driver of the steam car needed to have a license for operating a steam vehicle. The electric cars needed to be charged too often. Besides that, the car makers fixed the problems about the seats and put leather seats, so that the driving could be more comfortable.

There was a problem because there weren't good roads at the time. The more serious problem was that a lot of people used cars and a lot used horse carriages. There weren't different roads for these  vehicles.   There were many crashes and some resulted in death.

The City of New York banned cars in areas which there were horse carriages. Also they limited the speed of the cars to 15 km in villages,10 in the populated areas and 20km on the roads.
Besides these limitations the car industry profited a lot of money in the first years.In the 1920s the USA was the number one car industry in the world.