ROME – Fake news affects everywhere and in all sectors. Including that of the car. From water-powered cars to hacking a vehicle, there are many, and sometimes they can lead drivers to make bad decisions about future purchases. These choices can be expensive from an economic and safety point of view, which is why it is important to move optimally.
To help drivers unravel this labyrinth of false myths, automobile.it, a site for advertisements for used, new, Km 0 and rental cars, has created a handbook to dispel some common misconceptions and reveal other truths.
The false myths
1. The water-powered car: Flying cars are even a closer hypothesis than water-powered cars, in fact today there are no prototypes of this type of car, it is good to continue to save water but in view of a green future and not for the next recharge .
2.It costs more to insure red cars: no insurance company will ever ask for the color of the car, this rumor could be the result of an unwitting association of the color red with free-range Supercars, whose insurances are mind-boggling.
3.The problem of the electric is the absence of the columns: the infrastructure in Italy is not a problem at all, to date there are 2.7 charging points per 100 km, or one charging point for every seven electric vehicles in circulation, there are 9709 charging stations in Italy. With 19,324 charging points, growth was 39% in the last year and 81% since 2019.
4.Police cars are faster: (or have secret devices that increase their performance) there are no secret devices for cars supplied to the police, but some models have larger displacement than anything else you can find in the public trade.
5.Used cars are not bought online: used cars recorded a sales increase of 1.1% in 2020, according to ACI for every 100 new cars sold there have been almost 200 changes of ownership. The purchase of second-hand cars often using online sites is still preferred over that of new cars in the second half of 2020, purchases of used cars were 1,577,873, 3.4% more than in the same period in 2019.
6.Automatic vehicles are at risk of being hacked: the automatisms in the machines are varied, almost all the cars, automatic and not, currently on the market are equipped with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi as standard, these characteristics make them in themselves at risk of hacking. Therefore an automatic vehicle is at risk of hacking as much as a non-automatic one
7.The Ford T is black only: not quite so, of the 15 million cars produced, 12 million come out of the factory in black, but there are also other colors, only they are chosen by a much smaller number of buyers.
8. Italians do not trust to buy online: 75.3% of online shoppers after purchase are between quite satisfied, very satisfied and completely satisfied. According to data collected by automobile.it, 60.8% of online shoppers would return to the same dealer from here they have already bought a car, 55.65% of potential buyers never had to change sellers due to negative feelings.
The truth
1.The bigger the tire, the faster the speed: larger tires can increase speed but at the same time risk losing acceleration as the increase in tire size increases the final gear ratio: acceleration capacity is lowered but there is a higher top speed.
2.Black cars get hot in the sun: the American YouTuber MikersCarInfo conducted an experiment to measure the external temperature of a white and a black car, in this case the legend coincides with reality and the second proved to be much warmer.
3.Pregnant women can not wear the belt: Obviously, the highway code does not provide for any derogation for future mothers even in the ninth month of pregnancy, however, in case of proven medical reason of danger for the mother, the child can be avoided – only with a doctor’s certificate.
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