Do you ever sit there and wonder why we use the words that we do? I do, especially when I’m bored. This past weekend, I was driving back and forth for a few hours, running errands, visiting family, etc.. and I shifted from wondering why I was driving in the car so much, to wondering why it was a car and not a wheelie-mobile or a horseless carriage.
Did a little research, and learned that there were a shit-ton of names that people threw around before we got to “Car,” “Truck,” and “Automobile.”
Thankfully, none of these other names stuck.
This was one of the first names given to a self-propelled vehicle.
Then, we decided on this as our official title.
Some other names included:
These names were thrown around by journalists as the wrote about the various auto inventions that were being released in their respective countries.
Via Jalopnik
