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It's on the Meter – World Taxi Challenge was a round-the-world motoring expedition that broke the Guinness World Records for the longest ever journey by taxi and the highest altitude ever reached by taxi. The expedition's three-man team used a 1992 Fairway Driver London Black Cab to drive 43,319.5 miles (69,716.12 km) around the world.
The modern taximeter was invented by German Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Bruhn in 1891, [3] and the Daimler Victoria—the world's first meter-equipped (and gasoline-powered) taxicab—was built by Gottlieb Daimler in 1897. [4] Taximeters were originally mechanical and mounted outside the cab, above the driver's side front wheel.
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Sophia Tung rode in a Waymo for 6.5 hours around San Francisco. She says she would've ridden longer, but the Waymo's battery was running low. A Waymo spokesperson says it was one of the "longer ...
Hubodometer Veeder-Root Hubodometer Veeder-Root Original Veeder Counter Veeder Company Cyclometer Poster 1900. A hubometer (from hub, center of a wheel; -ometer, measure of) or hubodometer, is a device mounted on the axle of any land vehicle to measure the distance traveled by a vehicle based on the rotations of the wheel hub.
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From March 12th, 1849, to June 4th, 1849, and a Record of the Proceedings of the Ayuntamiento or Town Council of San Francisco, From August 5th, 1849, until May 3d, 1850. With an Appendix. Published by Towne & Bacon, Printers., San Francisco., 1860; The San Francisco Call Database Background by Jim W. Faulkinbury
Highest listing price on eBay: $16,000 In 1959, Ruth Handler — co-founder of the toy giant Mattel — was watching her daughter, Barbara, play with paper dolls.