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![Sunday Times Driving on Twitter: "#OnThisDay in 1725, French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was born. In 1770, he built the world's first self-propelled car. He also pioneered the car crash, after his steam-powered Sunday Times Driving on Twitter: "#OnThisDay in 1725, French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot was born. In 1770, he built the world's first self-propelled car. He also pioneered the car crash, after his steam-powered](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0XdpfJWkAAiN0P.jpg:large)