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• Fuel injection
  ...was formed. Both agencies now create and enforce emission regulations for automobiles, as well as for many other sources. ...Bendix]] introduced the first electronic injection systems starting in the 1950s, and they were quite dissimilar to today's EFI. ([[#Evolution]])
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• Car handling
  ...as braking, parking, etc.). This may have been true in the US in the late 1950s when many of the European imports undersold the Detroit "dinosaurs". It ma * The gaudy 1950s American "full size" "dinosaurs" — responded very slowly to steering
  36 KB (5,845 words) - 08:04, 8 October 2009
• Fiat
  ...player in developing motor industries for a number of countries from the 1950s, particularly in [[Eastern Europe]], Spain, [[Egypt]], [[Ethiopia]] and [[T Fiat automobiles have been made in Poland since 1920. In 1932, the [[Polski Fiat|Polskie zak
  39 KB (5,921 words) - 11:29, 14 April 2012
• Airbag
  ...[[aeroplane]]s as early as the 1940s, with the first patents filed in the 1950s. Despite the 1970s implementation of airbags in GM cars, many conventional automobiles did not even have them until the mid 1990s.
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• Australian Grand Prix
  ...a Circuit]] four times between 1938 and 1958. Another notable venue in the 1950s was a road circuit at [[Albert Park and Lake|Albert Park]] in [[Melbourne]] | [[English Racing Automobiles|ERA]]
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• Hybrid vehicles
  ...scent of "[[turbo lag]]", but demonstrated that turbines could be used for automobiles (see [[Chrysler Turbine engines]]). Also, in late 1990s General Motors made ...enerally have predictable demand for power, but is a challenging issue for automobiles, trucks, and buses
  64 KB (9,873 words) - 22:35, 14 June 2009
• History of the bicycle
  ...ut it dropped off dramatically in the United States between 1900 and 1910. Automobiles became the preferred means of transportation. Over the 1920s, bicycles grad ...ported from England, first became popular in the United States in the late 1950s. These comfortable, practical bicycles usually offered generator-powered he
  34 KB (5,162 words) - 18:37, 23 April 2009
• Motorcycle
  ...ltures have been loose-knit social groups such as the [[Cafe racers]] of [[1950s]] Britain, and the [[Mods]] and [[Rockers]] of the [[1960s]]. Others are pu
  38 KB (6,073 words) - 20:26, 6 July 2009
• Moto Guzzi
  In the 1950s, Moto Guzzi led the world of [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing]]. With durable ...sight saw Moto Guzzi adapting to a cultural shift away from motorcycles to automobiles. The company focused on popular lightweight mopeds including the Dingo and
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