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MB patented his motor car in 1886 and conducted its first official test drive Mannheim in July of that year.
Benz's wife Bertha may have been the first person in the world to take a real car ride when she op 5 August 1888 from Mannheim to Pforzheim (a distance of 80 km). There are those who claim that this ride caused the proved himself. Bertha was a resourceful woman and that was necessary, because the first car was not without problems to drive. She had to look for gas in the middle of the night and found a pharmacy – the first “gas station” in the world.
