When the first IC vehicles came out there were a lot of hurdles to cross. There were no fuel stations anywhere--the best you could hope for was somewhere that sold kerosene in bulk(good luck with that! The roads both in the city and in the country were made for horse/wagon transport. Outside the cities roads were basically mud paths, easier for a team of horses than a low powered car. A real problem in cold/snowy weather. They were impossibly expensive--all were hand made, only the rich and well to do could buy one.. Ford designed and priced his cars so that his workers could save up and buy one. There were no mechanics anywhere--you had better be a good mechanic or the car was useless. The first person to ride a bicycle from Ruidoso NM to Socorro NM, over 100 miles, took several days-made headline news, maybe this new and exciting thing was the wave of the future!!
Thank goodness my family kept to horses--those new fangled, smokey, noisy, complicated, impossible to fuel inventions of the devil will never last. 
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