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125th Anniversary of the Automobile: Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler put the world on wheels

The world marks the 125th anniversary of the invention of the automobile on Jan. 29. Karl Benz filed a patent for a three-wheeled vehicle driven by a gasoline engine in Mannheim, Germany, on that day in 1886, the same year Gottlieb Daimler completed his motorized carriage in Cannstatt, Germany.

First Sight: Daimler-BYD electric car design renderings leak out

Computer renderings of an electric car, being jointly developed by BYD Co., a Chinese battery and car producer that began making cars only less than a decade ago, and Daimler AG with more than a century of experience - were leaked for the second time this year. The car marks a critical juncture for the young Chinese carmaker based in the south China industrial hub of Shenzhen, just a stone's throw away from Hong Kong. It is also a key initiative in China, now the world's biggest auto market, for Daimler.

Fight parking tickets with the Fixed app

There are those among us, brave warriors in our midst, who battle the demonic and convoluted forces of parking enforcement every chance we get. For innocent victims of bureaucracy, accused perpetrators of victimless crimes who are held hostage by our wallets, we have a new weapon on our side: an app called Fixed that's potentially too good to be true. How this latest San Francisco-based startup app works: first, you take a picture of your parking ticket -- ignoring the nagging voice in your head that says a 13-year old neckbeard hacker from R