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jonhanson ,

"Light Speed Travel Is Possible" - of course it's possible, what speed does the headline writer think light travels at...?

TIL that the first person to receive a speeding ticket was going 8 mph.

According to Guinness World Records, the first person charged with speeding was Walter Arnold from Paddock Wood, Kent. On 28 January 1896, Arnold was seen going 4 times the allowed 2 mph speed limit in his Benz. The constable pursued him on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s (roughly £260 in today’s money), of which 10...

jonhanson ,

In the same year Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case in Great Britain of a pedestrian to be killed in a collision with a motor car. The car was traveling at 4mph.

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