The Volkswagen presentation was a huge repercussion, and various media outlets covered the event from different angles. Some major newspapers have keenly pointed out that this invention will change people's lives like never before.

The New York Daily Times, for example, focused more on the socio-economic impact of the invention, "just as trains have changed the way people travel, making the distances between cities smaller all of a sudden." The advent of automobiles will also make the city itself, and the distance between the city and the town a lot smaller.

Before the railway, we could almost only rely on waterways to transport large quantities of goods from one city to another, which made it almost necessary for cities to be built where there were waterways. The railways liberated the cities, allowing large quantities of goods to no longer rely on the waterways, but to reach another distant city more quickly by rail. However, within the city, as well as between cities and towns, the transportation of small goods still depends on traditional, low-speed, and low-efficiency horse-drawn carriages, which makes the transportation of small goods a bottleneck in the entire transportation link. Many times, on the one hand, the wagons on our railways are empty, and there are no materials to be transported, and on the other hand, because of the capacity of the horse-drawn carriages, a large number of materials that need to be transported urgently can only continue to stay in the warehouse, and cannot be transported to the train on time at all, so the train can only be parked over the tracks. Wasting train capacity in vain.

In yesterday's demonstration, Volkswagen's new invention - the car loaded ten tons of cargo at one time and walked like flying. As its control group, the four-horse Charmala wagon was already almost the strongest load-bearing carriage in the world, it pulled 5 tons of cargo at a time, which is already several times that of the average carriage, but the car proved itself to pull more and run faster than the best carriages. At yesterday's showcase, four Char horses ran around the road with a five-ton wagon and were so tired that they needed to rest. Their rival cars ran three laps in the same amount of time and were able to continue running if needed. This means that this vehicle is many times more efficient than the best horse-drawn carriages. Compared with ordinary carriages, there is no need to continue to compare.

We spoke to Frank, the managing director of Volkswagen. He told us that their truck had run an average speed of 19 miles per hour on a relatively straight road with the same load in previous tests, which was not even inferior to that of a train. Frank told me that he thought that the flexibility of the car was far better than that of the train in the transportation of some small goods, including between cities.

'For example, if you have tons of goods that need to be urgently transported from Cleveland to New York, but these goods are not enough to fill a train wagon, in the past, you would have to wait until you found other goods to fill the wagon, and the time was wasted. Either you grit your teeth, in order to buy time, just for such a little goods, wrap the entire wagon, and waste money in vain. If the railway is busy, sometimes you will have the problem of not being able to find the wagon at all. But now, with a car, this qiē is not a problem, drive a car to send it over, directly from your company's warehouse, to the other company's warehouse, to the other company's warehouse, convenient and fast. That's what Manager Frank told us.

As for the reliability and cost of use of such a vehicle, Manager Frank also gave us an account. He told us that the average 40 hours of use of this kind of car will have a small breakdown. With a little training, the driver can troubleshoot the problem within an hour. It's not even as good as the time it takes for a horse to have a meal. As for the cost of use, Manager Frank had this to say:

If horses could stay sick all the time, the cost of a two-horse cart would probably not be much higher than that of a car like this. ’

On the price of the car itself, as well as the question of fuel. Here's what Manager Frank said:

The price of the car itself is certainly more expensive than the horse-drawn carriage, but you see, a car can be as efficient as many horse-drawn carriages, and if it is an ordinary kind of horse-drawn carriage, I am afraid it can withstand dozens of carriages. And our prices will never be that expensive. Of course, the exact price has not yet been fully determined, but I can tell you that the final selling price will not exceed four hundred dollars. And with such a car, you are equivalent to having a transport company with dozens of carriages. As for the fuel we use, it is "gasoline" from Standard Oil, which can be easily sold at Standard Oil. ’……”

In other newspapers, reporters painted pictures of cars moving at high speeds, and The Sun interviewed some of the audience members who said they were impressed by the high speed of the cars.

"Runs like an angry tireless bull." This is how one of the viewers interviewed described this thing as a car.

And in an interview with Frank, The Sun dug up a lot of information:

"We told Manager Sù Frank that many of our readers would like to see a car for the whole family. And the manager Frank told us that the company also has such a plan, and the relevant models are being tested, and once they have passed various safety and economic tests, they may be put on the market. Regarding the performance of this vehicle, Manager Frank told us this:

'Compared to trucks, vehicles that take a family outing don't need to have that much load capacity, so they will be a little bit smaller, lighter, and have a smaller engine, which will also reduce fuel consumption and reduce the cost of ownership for our customers." Because the car is lighter and can be designed to be more in line with reducing aerodynamic resistance, I estimate that it will be faster, and it is entirely possible that it will approach or even exceed 40 miles per hour. In addition, we have a research and development plan for a more high-end luxury version of the passenger car and a public passenger car that can fit dozens of people at a time. You know, it's very inconvenient to have no carriage in the city, but horses will leave horse manure and horse urine everywhere in the city, polluting the city. At the same time, horses are very sensitive animals, and there are quite a few accidents in which a horse is frightened every year. In contrast, cars not only avoid such pollution and make the city cleaner, but also make people more calm than sensitive horses, and a completely human-controlled vehicle can also make urban traffic safer. ’”

All this nonsense about cleanliness and safety was taught to Frank by Scrooge. Scrooge, of course, from later generations, knew that these were all nonsense. It is true that cars do not leave piles of horse manure on the street, but the exhaust fumes emitted by cars are much more polluting than horse manure. Especially in that era, there was not much concept of air pollution, and there was no unleaded gasoline, ethanol gasoline or anything, and there were no national and European emission standards. This is an era of freedom, and you can emit exhaust gas as you want. The era of freedom is such capriciousness. As for safety, people from later generations know that in later generations, the biggest reason for human deaths is traffic accidents caused by cars, taking the United States as an example, in later generations, the number of people who die every year because of traffic accidents is many times that of the Kikura shooting. So whenever someone says that because citizens hold wooden warehouses, there are too many cases of guiding zhì wooden warehouses, and there are too many deaths, and there is a need to ban wooden warehouses, the guys from the Nagagikura Association who oppose the ban on wooden warehouses will say, "Let's ban the cars first!" "Compared to horse-drawn carriages, cars are much faster, of course, it is easier to kill people in accidents, besides, humans are not necessarily calmer and rational than horses, not to mention anything else, you must have heard of human drunk driving, when have you ever heard of horses pulling carts after drinking? But in this day and age, who would have thought of these things except Scrooge? And Scrooge, for these problems, of course, will take the attitude of killing you and I will not say anything.

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"Good job, Frank! The propaganda efforts have been extremely successful. I said a long time ago that with hard work, you can't be worse than John! Scrooge told Frank Rockefeller with satisfaction that he knew what language would best motivate John Rockefeller's brother.

Sure enough, Frank was visibly pleased to hear such praise, especially one that was no worse than John's. Frank was John's younger brother, and the eldest brother John was a role model for everyone in the John Rockefeller family, and from a young age, the adults would praise him and let his younger brothers learn from him. As soon as there's something they're not doing well enough, people say, "How can you do that?" Are you John's brother? Look at your brother, don't you feel ashamed? And even if Frank had done something well, people wouldn't have complimented him, because that damn John had done a better job.

In this way, Frank naturally doesn't like his big brother a little too much. But then it was good, and there was a Scrooge in the neighbor's house, and John was compared everywhere. Whenever people say that John is inferior to Scrooch, it makes Frank happy. "You've got it today!" That's what Frank thinks most often. Because of this, Frank and Scrooge have a very good relationship.

"Scrooge, don't praise me, you designed a lot of things, I just execute." Frank said that he didn't know why it made him uncomfortable to admit that his big brother was much better than him, but admitting that Scrooge was much better than him, Frank didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

"Oh, yes, you see it's a trademark of our design." Frank pulled out a piece of paper with the words "masses" written on it in beautiful floral letters.

"Scrooge, what do you think?"

"It's still nothing special." Scrooge shook his head, "It's better to be impressive when you see it." Monograms can't do that. Oh, and what does the Sun say our cars look like? ”

"Raging Bull." Frank said,

"That's a good analogy." "Let's trademark our car in the image of a running bull," Scrooge said. ”