1770 French Cugnot (Repro)(1)

1770 French Cugnot (Repro)(1), first self powered Military vehicle

[@georgeantabi6025]

*"I drive a car from the 70s"*

[@Tonyx.yt.]

cool, a car 50yrs old no, not 1970's... wow, 150 yrs old umbeliavable! no, not the XIX century WHAT

[@georgeantabi6025]

@@Tonyx.yt. lol

[@miguelnassour110]

@@Tonyx.yt. 150 years ago would be 1871 but this is from 1770

[@jasoncozment]

You suck!

[@Tonyx.yt.]

@@miguelnassour110 that's why i said "no, not the XIX century"

[@alunajr89]

I love the cannon in the back, they already had road rage in mind

[@georgecarter838]

Might have only one shot, but it will be all over for the guy that started it!

[@tonylichacz6453]

Is the Canon used for tailgaters?

[@11kimczi]

the cannon is nitro, like in gta you shoot back while driving tank to speed up

[@Seamus322]

Gets you lots of respect on the Long Island Expressway..

[@KitKitChanIsaac]

@@tonylichacz6453 "Who dares to tailgate thee shall be perished."

[@totallyrevv]

1770s car talk: "Wow this Automobile is spectacular how fast can it go?" "About 2 miles per day" "Amazing!"

[@Borismolotov]

1770s talk: "Chariot can not to be moving by herself without a horse... wait... Oh my Lord!"

[@bow_wow_wow]

"Can you imagine? Some day he might make one go as fast as a horse!" "Don't be ridiculous, laddy, he's a tinkerer, not a magician."

[@viktor3806]

Браво

[@split_pin]

Nicholas Cugnot's Steam Gun Carriage, 1769. This is brilliant to see. I read about this in a car book in the 1980s and it always fascinated me. It looked smaller in the artists impression. The original was described as 'a hardly workable vehicle' and it eventually crashed into a wall. A fabulous machine by all accounts. Thanks for posting.

[@egemenasan9543]

Thanks to Cugnot

[@starikovdmitriy]

Ты наверное Долматовского читал. :)

[@ocrapo9327]

Could you imagine crashing one of these. It would blow up and send flaming coals.

[@hugosophy]

Hahaha hardly workable

[@gavmansworkshop5624]

We gonna crash and I definitely can't stop it!!! Oh well, might as well just step off here and hope for the best.

[@allenro1]

Guy in 1770: Got this sweet ride. It does 0 to 3 in 45 min😎☇

[@srfrg9707]

nope. Takes almost one hour just to boil enough steam.

[@tejasrao6187]

@@srfrg9707 r/whoosh

[@juststar6597]

@@srfrg9707 r/woosh

[@am0804]

r/shutupthebothofyouwooshers

[@someonestolemyname]

What a sight to see 2 wooooshers that missed the joke.

[@elistickband]

Luckily they invented the horse to replace this

[@SweetTodd]

Those ponies sure do ride with more grace.

[@MaskManTamil1997]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@elistickband]

@@syko310 Wow, thank you so much for correcting me. Where would we be without people like you?

[@maxnaxjavour7936]

@@syko310 Life saver.

[@mayanktripathi8726]

@@syko310 you still don't get the joke do you?

[@kristofferchamness6964]

I love that people crowd to see this machine just as they did in the 1700's

[@thejollywrencher]

This one is equipped with the Anti-Tailgater option. Very rare.

[@BardOfApollo]

The design is very human.

[@erich7751]

Pull up to a hotel with valet parking. “Park this my good man.”

[@slcommitment]

😂😂😂😂

[@InterpolBulliedMe]

he would just call tellicom service to learn how to drive it

[@qweqwe8698]

احسنت

[@HAVOC-me4hw]

I hope the valet is an engineer

[@dailyhealthmotivation7079]

It was Tank & I think noone would drive a tank to a hotel

[@malcolmabram2957]

Cugnot used to deliver whiskey. After he built this, people discovered how good mature whiskey is.

[@leathercheerio1]

Haha. Nice one

[@capitainebonhomme1609]

Haha 😂😅😂

[@thedwightguy]

@@capitainebonhomme1609 I see the barrel marked "bourbon" on the carriage. Thought it was the French family name.

[@d53101]

By the time he makes his delivery the bourbon will be well aged.

[@onarix]

@@thedwightguy this is where it came from, Americans adopted the name for the liquor as an hommage for Louis XIV for sending help during the independence war. Bourbon is the royal family name.

[@christophe77700]

And in a few years, the Montgolfier brothers will perform the first manned flight. Two inventions that made humanity progress.

[@gregorydahl]

The chinese made paper dragon shaped balloons to scare away the new york colonists .

[@Xeroxiv]

@@gregorydahl with people inside? damn they are crazy lol

[@michaelbarnett7691]

It's a great military vehicle as long as it has a smooth paved road to run on and the enemy is willing to wait for it to get moving before they shoot at it.

[@chibani-]

That thing was originaly made to haul tree trunks for naval construction

[@user-uq9ou4jz1z]

Г

[@prudhvi2354]

😂🤣

[@anasevi9456]

What you said applies to horse carriages too nitwit, it was meant for hauling stuff, not battle use. For a first effort it actually incredibly impressive functionally, even has a damn reverse and relatively jumps off the line, even if it never gets faster than a jog.

[@chinabluewho]

1770 version of the Death Star.

[@australia3913]

Really good quality for a video made over 200 years ago

[@lochandichabod3084]

Lmao

[@gklnth187]

You may also like thousands of years old pyramid videos and millions of years old dinosaur bones videos.

[@worldeffectsvideos220]

250 year

[@MrFreakMeister]

Yes, today Health and Safety wouldn't allow fire, steam and most probably no brakes, isn't life boring these days!! 😱😱🤣🤣🤣

[@CutieRingoJoy]

Bahaha

[@jpblanc71]

First-class reconstruction. Even the flag is the right one. Congratulations. This folder is part of the history of the world. Thank you to those who do not forget their story.

[@iconsumeworlds]

"Sir, wouldn't it make more sense to put the boiler at the back so that the driver isn't blinded by a giant cloud of steam?" said nobody apparently.

[@dv9239]

I don't think he needs to see

[@kingofthepod5169]

I guess you could drive it in reverse. When I have a pallet on a forklift that blocks my vision, It's actually protocol at my lumberyard to drive the unit backwards.

[@SamanthaStone1998Channel]

@@kingofthepod5169 IS THAT REALLY THE FIRST CAR

[@caseyrevoir]

Visibility to see what your doing with the boiler while driving is probably the goal.

[@iconsumeworlds]

@@caseyrevoir Lol if that was the goal, then they failed at that too since the entire boiler was also shrouded in thick steam.

[@denisbuisine8429]

Very nice replica. For information, a real model built by Nicolas Joseph Cugnot in 1771 is presented at the "arts et métiers" museum in Paris

[@gregorydahl]

Can make a video or post a photo ? Where is this one going to i wonder .

[@Sashazur]

That’s an amazing museum - anyone visiting Paris needs to see it if you’re at all interested in science or technology. They also have early flying machines. Even the metro station nearby is in Jules Verne style.

[@chandrakantshankar8379]

Its a very privilege to watch our human ancestors inventions. They are the real engineers... Salute them

[@nunyabizness199]

Huzzah !

[@AidenPearce806]

Im not french

[@chandrajitrout9037]

Right

[@DutchmanRadio]

You have a very beautiful outlook on humanity, cheers.

[@haikat4]

Very true... Imagine how different the world could be if we still relied on steam for everything...

[@Manonsilvermountain]

My jaw dropped seeing it could even reverse!

[@b43xoit]

Looks as though that required changing ratchet settings on both sides, not reachable from the driving position.

[@ra_alf9467]

French, mate. French..

[@kamovka2317]

It’s French

[@juliethurgood3667]

Dad: I used to have one of those when I was younger.

[@Sammers987Man]

when it finally started actually moving and people clapped, I felt that.

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

I love the way he's "enouraging" the machine to move forward. This is exactly what I do when I'm on the riding lawnmower.

[@squirehaggard4749]

The French: Producing odd looking cars since 1770.

[@bernardcimetiere6451]

COLUMBO!

[@ville_1235]

well they dont produce them anymore

[@bernardcimetiere6451]

@@ville_1235 no ,it was to quick for the roads in France!

[@Hrodn]

And only slightly more reliable.

[@francisstrogoff6575]

Vos voitures ,vous en voulez même pas ,elles sont de mauvaise qualité , c'est pour cette raison que vous achetez autant de voitures étrangères ! Your cars, you don't even want them, they are of poor quality, that's why you buy so many foreign cars!

[@nudebaboon4874]

The enemy wouldn't have seen this coming.😂 Love the front wheel drive, what a wonderful piece of machinery!

[@bigchillphil]

Pulls up beside you and asks do you have any Grey Poupon.

[@seanshea8596]

It's nice to see what Jay Leno drives to work these days.

[@MrTruth111]

Hahahahaha, yes, this is one of his more modern vehicles:)

[@SlopedOtter]

All worldwide traffic is actually caused by Jay Leno driving to work, and will only clear hundreds of years after his death

[@zaidimilkshopandwholesaled4457]

Hi

[@maga6252]

Nah! This one is a reproduction! He'll look at it and say he has better steam powered cars and tractors.

[@urrywest]

Safty first.

[@christopheschwartz7374]

Belle réplique de la Fardier de Joseph Cugnot, magnifique de la voir fonctionné!!! Merci pour ce partage...

[@williamcase3494]

When I was kid growing up in Wales these were still a common sight in the streets. Everything was more or less steam powered back then even household appliances. Steam fridges, steam cook tops, steam door locks. I remember watching old black and white episodes of Gilligan's Island on the old Panasonic Steam-o-Vision TV. We fed coal into a small chute on the side. Coal everywhere for everything. Everyone had blackened fingernails from handling coal all day so it wasn't a big deal being filthy. You could tell who picked their nose because they were the ones with a single clean fingernail.

[@festyguy7405]

Those were the good times!

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

happy days indeed

[@geigertec5921]

I'm actually viewing this on a i-Steam steam-powered iPhone, it has a boiler, chimney, and piston assembly with the optional iSteam condenser for extended battery life.

[@bilplaymo6121]

Joseph Cugnot, on the first try, he couldn't stop the Fardier machine and hit the wall of the court where he was testing ! lol less wounded as a first aircraft pilot....time of pionneer...thanks for sharing : )

[@yousufmusthaneer9738]

Hatsoff to that man who can can operate that 200+ year old vehicle!!

[@ommsterlitz1805]

It seems fairly easy he command to open or close the steam power with the long stock and have only forward and reverse, if you drive manual it's actually harder.

[@patrickdito_9523]

me be like in 18 century walking : ❌ horse : ❌ steamwagon : ✔️ 😂😂

[@georgeantabi6025]

*wagen

[@georgeantabi6025]

@ཀཱ ReAlLy¿!

[@elias7748]

@@georgeantabi6025 no

[@blackheavyblans]

Same😂

[@Demun1649]

France! The first country with a mobile gun platform, the first proper tank, Renault FT17, that every nation now copies, (engine placement, rotating turret and track steering), the first gearbox and shaft driven differential, the first hot hatch, the Renault 5 Gordini, the first turbocharged F1 car, and so many more originals.

[@Plookify]

Right...and now totally destroyed by third world overdosed immigration, woke mentality and corrupted politicians

[@KitKitChanIsaac]

You forgot the least reliable cars

[@Demun1649]

@@KitKitChanIsaac You make the usual mistake. Quoting false advertising by the Americans and the Japanese, about their rubbish vehicles. I used a Renault van for 16 years as a professional DJ, never broke down, needed one starter motor and one rear axle in all that time, working 7 days a week, in all weathers. And what would you know? You are just a BABY.

[@KitKitChanIsaac]

@@Demun1649 Tell me you're a snobby Fr×nch without telling me you're a snobby Fr×nch. Your van only lasted 16 years because you took care of it. Let's say you forgot to put oil in it, would it last for 2 months like the 1980s Toyota Pickup Jeremiah Burton's (From Donut Media) did? Would your French van survive a WhistlinDiesel durabillity test? I highly doubt that any Fr×nch car would last 3 years under the harsh and torturous conditions mentioned above. Meanwhile, even China has surpassed your fellow snobby cheese munchers in making good cars.

[@sweetiepienumber1]

Thank God for those inventors and these guys for their work showing us.

[@heinzkozak2146]

As a german I was convinced that it was one of us ( Mr.Benz ) who invented the "automobil".Well,after this video I must admit it was this french monsieur who did so.His vehicle moved by own power.This is enough to claim the title "first automobil of the world". My congratulations !

[@micheldilly8531]

FRANCE TERRE D'INVENTEURS !!

[@antoinem4401]

Bon vu les performances on ne va pas non plus le crier sur tous les toits ^^

[@mineeduka4488]

@@micheldilly8531 and land of mathematicians

[@benoitguillou3146]

@Winahh Taylahh Well considering your own Motor vehicle companies ( General Motors and ford , also some shady characters like Prescott bush ) couldn't hope to sell vehicles abroad without wrecking the European industry first with a terrible war that enticed them to finance the nazi party with millions of dollars just after Weimar's hyperinflation , I'd say avoiding further destruction by stopping the destructive conflict that would have joyously pleased the Murican chain of deep state command was the right course of action ....

[@ronaldderooij1774]

Well, I remember it was not meant for the public and it was meant to tow military equipment. But I might be wong.

[@SsiolisP]

- It's 2019, the war is over. Head back to base. - (Gugnot Crew) Gosh darn it, we almost made it!

[@kamikazestryker]

this was the french reinforcement for the american independence war right ? ^^

[@SsiolisP]

@Purple Hoodie "a joke that"?... a joke WHICH!

[@repola81]

It's two thousand and twenty four, world war III and Word War III is just around the corner. Soon there won't be any electricity, or fuel to gas up your F Ford, so this model will sell like hotcakes! So make sure you have your leather helmet, gloves , and driving glasses ready...oh well, the glasses are optional because the mosquitoes will have plenty of time to circumnavigate your battleship while you're dashing through wastelands with this bad boy.

[@Syzfox]

I've seen this video before and just now realized it has a license plate. "Hello I'd like to register my vehicle." "What year is your vehicle sir?" "1770."

[@lancecorporal9894]

Pretty interesting use of the ratcheting mechanism, quite clever really.

[@falseprofit4u]

You could cold cook dinner as you drove, I still remember drinking tea and eating roast spuds from the boiler fire on a steam train as a child.

[@remc70]

It’s fascinating there was a self-propelled vehicle before the revolutionary war

[@ommsterlitz1805]

It was the first ever but yes indeed.

[@JostVanWair]

More fascinating is that this thing literally predated steam trains

[@PMGW]

@@ommsterlitz1805 no one said it wasn't

[@FordFalcon1962nBlue]

it predated steam engines by over 60 years

[@Alex-cw3rz]

​@@FordFalcon1962nBlue just over 30 years actually but still older.

[@thedude8046]

Wow! What a beautiful piece of machinery!👌

[@qui573]

Can only imagine that Era of innovations that massively changed humanity.

[@Rhacman]

I see they installed the anti-tailgate option!

[@thesart_]

man!))) I laugh as an insane))))

[@thedwightguy]

@@thesart_ Needs a bumper sticker in French metric: if you can tell the diameter of this cannon hole, you're about to swallow what is now coming out of it.

[@ironmatic1]

Nice video quality for 1770

[@scottprendergast2680]

Indeed- and a real Poon Tang special it is-myou know the drivers racking up numbers and booty calls in addition to that olden untreatable form of syphillis.

[@stepvanjoe3469]

Nice video quality AND Florida tags!

[@Rasnaaa]

LOL

[@earlofwickshire5416]

Damnit, I was gonna make a similar joke!

[@victorvargasmartinez2611]

XD

[@byungsoonkim9375]

이런 귀한 영상을 올려주어서 감사해요. 재미있어요.

[@adityaazad8216]

Benz: cars isn't intersting anymore. Give me something to awe about. Cugnot: (invents the monster truck)

[@jpblanc71]

First-class reconstruction. Even the flag is the right one. Congratulations. This Fardier of Cugnot is part of the history of the world. Thank you to those who do not forget their story.

[@sleepycobra9152]

Whole town knows that you are going somewhere

[@parratt-world]

Or been. Not much good as a getaway car, that's for sure.

[@leadersuccess3761]

The enemy knew where and when the French was moving 😆

[@parratt-world]

@@leadersuccess3761 ... and stopped the war for lunch, to give them time to get there.

[@khrhee5]

-Good morning where you goin? -To my grandma's -Good evening how was your grandma doing? -I'm still going

[@numberq1134]

@@khrhee5 Going to Grandma's... with the cannon?

[@mandoguy8789]

we saw this in a car museum in Florida a few years ago. How wonderful to find a video of it in action!

[@burreifort]

how we take things for granted nowadays. And this is how we are going to look in 100 years time.

[@princecharon]

Well, it's certainly a prototype: You have to turn the *entire engine* to steer, and must stand up in order to see ahead of you. Still, pretty impressive work for the era - it predates the steam locomotive and the steamboat by a fair bit.

[@peterjackson2625]

The semispherical shape of the boiler is advanced thinking for a pressure vessel. British boiler were cylindrical at best, with flat ends.

[@simontaylor2319]

0-60 in 150 years

[@KentuckyFriedChildren]

@@krystal_moth you monster

[@youdontcare2312]

0-60 like: yes or no

[@mr.howvlogs3.048]

nice car,,,imagine driving from newyork to alaska...365 days,,i love those cars

[@aaronmariscal7983]

Boss: you are late 1700s man: I was going as fast as I could!!!

[@harrisonvc9175]

isn't it amazing how far we've come? this thing was the pinnacle of cutting-edge experimental technology back then, only 199 years later we had men strapped to Saturn 5 rockets flinging em to the moon at 24,791 miles per hour

[@Winspur1982]

199 years later American women still didn't have reproductive rights, so let's be careful with "we."

[@JostVanWair]

@@Winspur1982 ruined it stfu

[@trollashnikovavtomat]

@@Winspur1982 what reproductive rights do you not have? who is stopping you from reproducing? or are you talking about murdering babies?

[@oussamaoussama6364]

Imagine what we'll have 200 years from now, with AI and other tech, Oh wait, you can't imagine..

[@protalukoriginal4560]

@@Winspur1982 wrong video

[@bertkutoob]

Forget stealth - you can detect this thing coming on the Richter Scale!

[@fidelcatsro6948]

hhahahahah

[@redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637]

you cracked me :D

[@Moepowerplant]

Earthquake...? No, captain...

[@xaris5309]

This was meant to drag canons to battle, not to arrive in the battle the stealthy way.

[@Stockskipower]

😂😂😂

[@TralfazConstruction]

Understeers when pushed hard in the corners. What a marvelous machine this is. Someone was thinking about the application of motive force to a carriage all those years ago.

[@carlharding5311]

Reminds me of our 1972 Austin 1100, except this thing started up and actually threatened the speed limit.

[@christiandietz6341]

Umm great idea! When some bonehead behind you keeps honking, nothing works better than a 12-pound cannonball in his radiator!

[@rajapusapati1]

😂😂😂

[@mr.warlight9086]

That's the tailpipe.

[@mrducky179]

@@mr.warlight9086 it aint

[@thedwightguy]

@@mrducky179 we need the "Dave Clark Five" to make a guest appearance as the cannon crew.

[@dfpytwa]

The rear firing cannon is probably used to help it get over a bump in the road.

[@Theogenerang]

The forward crumple zone looks well thought out.

[@pootismaster2574]

Until you realize that it is full of pressurized steam that could scorch your face off if it was ruptured, or even possibly explode with a little mismanagement of the safety valve assuming it has one

[@poulletkavuvi2227]

A maze of state of art engineering.

[@harveywallbanger3123]

I kept waiting for the front wheel to hit a pothole and smash the boiler into a curb edge or something. Absolutely astonishingly dangerous, but a fascinating piece of history nonetheless.

[@sofafernsehfan]

This vehicle was constructed 50 years prior to Stephensons "Rocket" and 140 years prior to the Ford T. Keep this in mind when joking about it.

[@frances4797]

Legitimate reason for being late for work...."I drive a Cugnot" 😂 Should've left home 10 hours earlier 🤣

[@larrylentini5688]

I understand now why horseless carriages took another hundred years to take off

[@parratt-world]

You mean the ones with wings? They are called "aeroplanes", ... or aircraft.

[@cellogirl11rw55]

@@parratt-world No, he means cars. When cars were first invented, they were callet horseless carriages.

[@thusspakevespasian5587]

@@cellogirl11rw55 whoosh

[@parratt-world]

@@cellogirl11rw55 Dear me, .. how old are you? If you hadn't noticed, everyone here (except you it seems) has a sense of humour, and I was playing on the expression "take off" which primarily applies to aircraft. .. never mind.

[@witherhoard5333]

@@parratt-world that was a bad joke js

[@srfrg9707]

French cars : front wheel drive since 1770.

[@reyantm]

Good point

[@stuartsaunders3238]

Warning - understeer possible, over 2 km per decimal week!

[@srfrg9707]

Stuart Saunders That model predates the decimal reform though. It was still built using feet, inches and all that jazz. French royal feet and inches of course. Not that UK imperial rubbish system.

[@arthurdavis3365]

Λογος ***ha,ha***

[@MURDOCK1500]

You beat me to it Haha

[@davidbrennan5]

Thank you for driving it and not letting it sit inside.

[@abbasaziz4561]

أعجوبة هندسية ممتازة ..لقد رجعنا الى زمن الاجداد في سنة ١٧٧٠ميلادي..تحياتي من بغداد ألعراق...qood..lraq

[@billtsirtsis7060]

It was probably the 1st automobile. Washington declined to use it in his inauguration celebration, saying , I'll wait to ride a new Lincoln continental".

[@manoffewords1]

I like how you still need a license plate to drive it.

[@LITTLE1994]

And it is FAR too slow for that.

[@Petemonster62]

It may require a boiler operator license too.

[@rand49er]

I've never seen one of those move before. Thanks!

[@chrisbadiata8219]

The journey of a thousand miles begin with the first step. The real first step of the automobile industry

[@raphaelsimeon8618]

Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was an engineer in the French Royal Army! He built this Fardier to carry the weapons and not to tire men and horses anymore!!!!! The first car in history was born in 1769!

[@KitKitChanIsaac]

Still faster than that Prius in the fast lane

[@darthmalice7464]

​@Purple Hoodie I did

[@yoshiguy35]

This brings a whole new meaning to 'manual'.

[@steffenrosmus9177]

Building the steam boiler on the steering axles was French masterpiece.

[@RedcoatsReturn]

Better than the Chrysler Aires I drove in the 90s…it actually moves! 😄😉

[@TheMoni700]

That is a monster of a machine. Front wheel drive, and horse power steam engine. He even has his own personal bourbon barrel for when the drive gets rough. Honey, it is going to be 4hr drive to town and going 2mph..

[@kristoffpayne5592]

the bourbon barrel makes it all worthwhile.

[@robertsroberts1688]

if it even goes forward

[@jasmijnariel]

U mean 0.5mph

[@ommsterlitz1805]

Well yes but that thing can carry 1500kg of stuff from the town to your place in just 8hours it's unheard of in the 1770 if you don't have 2 dozens of horse carriages

[@SlavicUnionGaming]

with that thing it take you maybe a week to get to next town

[@bobbylee2853]

Horses weren’t worried about their jobs 😂

[@rkadenise6329]

This is what brings to modern engineering. Salute

[@creeper50]

this French obsession with front wheel drive has some roots

[@GT-fi4sk]

I don't see this ever replacing the horse

[@fidelcatsro6948]

a walmart 150dolar chinese made 200cc generator engine can do this work today

[@clownphabetstrongwoman7305]

it didn't

[@gastonjaillet9512]

It wasn't supposed to. It was supposed to replace mules for very heavy stuff like cannons. But it was an experiment before all and it was very inspiring for later engineers

[@redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637]

they just needed to wait 200 years (but screw horses!! the vast majority of owners are just showoff that keep em like they should keep a rusty motorbike, and they still block the traffic... "because science" you know)

[@thelasttaarakian]

But can you strap a cannon, fog machine and a cask of bourbon to a horse? Checkmate.

[@Gibberishus]

A canon and a barrel of bourbon. The safety features I look for in any automotive vehicle.

[@lkrnpk]

one reason why these steam thingies did not really catch on is also that the steam tanks tended to blow up sometimes and made people die in a horrible way...

[@stelleratorsuprise8185]

Bourbon was the famely name of the french kings.

[@donaldb3628]

The canon is for tailgaters!

[@boataxe4605]

Donald B And bicycles that run red lights!

[@thierrydesu]

We the French have invented everything. We are a beacon for mankind. You owe us everything.

[@Loosie_fur]

And by the sound of it, looks like they also invented narcissism. Or is it just you? 🤔

[@thierrydesu]

@@Loosie_fur Unfortunately, I am becoming an exception. We have our woke culture which says that not only have we done nothing right, we are also responsible for all of mankind's crimes.

[@Loosie_fur]

@@thierrydesu damn. Fair enough.

[@Dannysoutherner]

I love it! I really love the tailgater eliminator.

[@KowboyUSA]

Guns, motor vehicles and plenty of bourbon; seems perfectly safe enough.

[@grahamlopez6202]

And brown paper packages tied up with strings...

[@austink7453]

God bless America!

[@aleksanderliskiewicz5415]

@@austink7453 it's French

[@borisgrey2081]

Imagine: 14 juli 1789.... revolutions people sturming Bastilia... From gate, slow going three - four "tanks", making on base this machine: with ironsaids, with cartech - guns... 😆😬😠😭.... 💀💀💀💀💀

[@dcrana9063]

Kowboy USA

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

The next day0 the first speeding ticket was introduced.

[@TinyTeaKettle]

also the first one while the vehicle was still moving. Efficiency and such.

[@shadowsinmymind9]

Random fact: the first person to get killed by a car was hit by the car while it was going only 30 miles per hour

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@Cecilia Lucia Gigena Not sure, but according to (ohiohistorycentral.org/w/World's_First_Automobile_Accident?rec=2596) first car accident was in 1891. My aunt, who was 5 at the time, was hit by a car in NYC in the 1920s. She did not survive. :(

[@ronvanwegen]

I had one of these. When it broke down which happened every 30 to 60 seconds it could "limp" home just by firing the cannon out the back. The recoil was a bit intense but it got rid of tailgaters. Everything's a trade-off.

[@Saa42808]

Better put it back in the museum.

[@uthermaceanruig5098]

This thing looks like a boiler explosion 💥 waiting to happen. Lol

[@wildman510]

I know. Single stray bullet or worn rivet and KABLOOIE

[@georgeantabi6025]

Lmao ikr

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

Not really bc its low pressure and you can tell by the lack of power

[@andregaillard4431]

Quelle merveilleuse reconstitution, l'émotion est intacte ! 👍👍👍

[@trumpandino3264]

thanks Joe Biden we will return to transporting ourselves by steam due to the excessive rise in fuels XD

[@e.s.6275]

​@@trumpandino3264 for that you should thank to a little sucker pootin.

[@puebespuebes8589]

People joke about how slow it is but it is as strong as a the dozen horse required a move a gun

[@infoshowchannel]

As a mechanical Engineer i studied about this machine and now i m watching it. After some years ( i think 2-3 years) french army decommissioned this vehicle due to its low speed

[@ergbudster3333]

I can see why you'd need a whole barrel of bourbon. This thing would make anybody nuts. By the time you got there the war would be over.

[@henryhenry903]

Erg Budster that’s why the french lost lol

[@shade38211]

Henry Henry You would have 2 narrow down 2 which war they lost.

[@henryhenry903]

shade38211 lol all the ones that this unit made them late for lol, it is really really cool how the drive mechanism works though

[@shade38211]

Henry Henry frank dibnar , pretty sure how spelled, did great videos on steam in UK. Kinda like norm on US "this old house" type shows. Lad builds a steam roller that he names after his wife. He ends up getting divorced over it.

[@henryhenry903]

shade38211 thanks I’ll check it out, ive always liked steam powered stuff as my dad talks about the one he built at age 12 and mounted it on the horse buggy lol

[@dlcsdo5262]

everybody gangsta till you pull up in the 1770 French Cugnot

[@grantw.whitwam9948]

Best Comment!

[@ommsterlitz1805]

French Fardier made by Cugnot

[@BOMBON187]

Imagine waking up late for work and having to drive this thing.

[@atomic4650]

Insanely ahead of its time.

[@johnishmael7154]

I once owned a French car. This pretty much mirrors my ownership experience.

[@SweetTodd]

Did it come with a barrel of whiskey in the back?

[@kalinystazvoruna8702]

@@SweetTodd That would probably be the Irish version.

[@sneakerfreak2002]

Probably would’ve helped

[@andreasr.7146]

Lol, seem's its difficult to drive this car in parking lot^^

[@michaelfleming40]

A 1770 Renault Le Car. 😆

[@rkomada88]

It's like watching government in action.

[@sohomchatterjee]

Mmhhhahahahhahaha 🤣🤣🤣

[@m0ther_bra1ned12]

Oof

[@mscott3918]

No, it's too fast and only has one person steering

[@lkrnpk]

if it was a government in action there would be 8 steering wheels in eight directions operated by 8 people and every other second they'd argue and try to agree which way to go in the end either going nowhere, changing directions every second or deciding to slowly crawl back into the shed

[@xavierlongoria4562]

the incipient capitalism

[@ednitsche8188]

Finally a working cyber truck!

[@syafiahrafanda2387]

amazing experiment

[@TheTaylor559]

i dont know why i always come back to this video and rewatch it.

[@BobBob-oe9uf]

To make your dacia look good in comparison? 😬

[@davidsmith4416]

I remember reading about this vehicle when I was a kid. I saw a lithograph print of it in my history book crashing into a barn in France scaring and scattering chickens. I always wondered what it really looked like in motion. To think, this was the time of Benjamin Franklin. The early days of steam power and the industrial revolution.

[@TeaParty1776]

> crashing into a barn in France scaring and scattering chickens. Cooking chickens

[@rachelredden6682]

Sammy Hagar- Can't drive 55. 1770 French cugnot- Can't drive 5.

[@authoranonymous8892]

"You can borrow my car if you need it." "No thanks, I'll walk, I'm in a bit of a hurry."