How fast do bumper cars go

Bumper cars for adults and kids alike are one of the most iconic, popular, and long-lasting amusement park rides out there.

First introduced in the early s by a company called Dodgem, bumper car rides have been a hilarious and unpredictable way to unleash pent up energy for almost a century. The Stoehrer brothers were the first dudes to put a patent on bumper cars and they called their company the Dodgem Company. However, the bumper cars cannot drive on the street or as a training go karts, because dashing bumper cars do not have brake system. So just play it as an amusement equipment. Dodgems, or bumper cars, are small, electric- powered vehicles often found at amusement parks and fairs.

Each car runs on electricity, with a motor powering a main drive wheel. Each dodgem is surrounded by a rubber bumper that offers passengers some cushioning from impacts.

They are the small cars in a pavilion, with rubber bumpers around them. They actually get their energy from electricity. What would happen if you put one hand in the tank with the electric eel? Your hand would fly out. What would happen if you put two hand in the tank with the electric eel? You would get electrocuted. The old, classic style of bumper cars had poles that attached to the back of the car, running electricity down a wire to the car.

Other types of bumper cars use an electric floor that activates the cars through a simple circuit system under the cars. Top Gear's professional driver, nicknamed "the Stig," drove the enhanced bumper car to a record-breaking speed of Furze spent about three weeks building the bumper car into a record-worthy vehicle, filming the process for his YouTube channel.

In the late s, the Lusse Brothers, a shop in Philadelphia, developed its own version of bumper cars, which it called Auto Skooters.

Throughout the s, the two competing companies sold hundreds of bumper cars. The ride quickly became a staple at the many parks that used to dot the country, such as Euclid Beach in Cleveland, which closed in Nearly years after they were introduced, the rides are still going strong.

What accounts for their enduring popularity? The only caveat is to avoid head-on collisions, as many bumper car attractions warn riders with large signs.

Another huge selling point: Kids can drive them. For many children, their first experience behind a wheel is plowing into other kids in bumper cars. The amusements used to sprawl across a much larger swath of Coney Island than they do today. He remembers the skill it sometimes took to operate them. Attendants would stand on the bumper that surrounds a car, hold on to the contact pole with one hand and the steering wheel of the occupied vehicle with the other, and try to get the car in motion while other cars were slamming into it.

Driving bumper cars can almost always guarantee a great time. Physics of Bumper Cars. Written by Carly Hallman.