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A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Cars were invented in 1886, when German inventor Carl Benz patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars have controls for driving, parking, passenger comfort, and a variety of lights. Over the decades, additional features and controls have been added to vehicles, making them progressively more complex. There are costs and benefits to car use.

There are around one billion cars in use worldwide. Car usage is increasing rapidly, especially in China, India, and other newly industrialized countries. Middle English carre “two-wheeled cart”, both of which in turn derive from Gaulish karros “chariot”. Motor car”, attested from 1895, is the usual formal term in British English. Autocar”, a variant likewise attested from 1895 and literally meaning “self-propelled car”, is now considered archaic.