In the early days before the invention of automobiles, people travelled to all places either by foot, horse or carriage. Then later on people came up with proper railroads and streets where they are now able to live further apart where they could have a smoother journey. Since then, the travel industry began to grow as inventors are getting creative in creating a simpler way to travel.
In the late 1700s, a European inventor created the steam engine where it functions by using pressured energy from heat to push the pistons. In 1860, France inventor Jean Lenoir patented the internal-combustion engine that is similar to today’s technology. Later in year 1885, Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz improved the internal-combustion engine with gasoline and developed the very first gasoline-powered automobile in Germany, now widely known as Mercedes-Benz. Year 1891, the very first electric-powered automobile was created by William Morrison in the US. But the downfall during that time was it could only travel 20 miles per hour and 50 miles before the next recharge. Duryea Motor Wagon Company was the very first automobile company founded in 1893 by Charles
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The report stated that between 1995 and 2010, the number of women with a driving license grew by 23 percent which is from 2.6 million to 13.8 million. There are more female drivers on the road than their male counterparts in USA (Zhang, 2012). Based on Malaysian Road Transport Department, cars registration reached an all-time high of 136394.0 cars in July of 2012 and a record low of 9732.0 cars in May of 1988 (TE, 2012). Furthermore, statistics shows that an average of 2.95 persons per car based on a projected population figure of around 28.3 million (Motor Trader, 2012). This indicates the desire toward owning a car in Malaysia has increased and car vehicle has become a necessity within the