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  • Mercedes-Benz built the world's first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine.


  • Anti-lock brakes, traction control and airbags were all Mercedes-Benz innovations.


  • The origins of the Daimler-Benz company founded through a merger in 1926 date back to the mid-1880s, when Gottlieb Daimler working with Wilhelm Maybach, and Karl Benz independently invented the internal combustion engine-powered automobile, in southwestern Germany.


  • AMG engines are hand-built and the completed engine received a tag with the signature of the engineer who built it. AMG has been fully-owned by Mercedes-Benz since 1999.


  • The "Safety cage" or "Safety cell" construction with front and rear crumple zones was first developed by Mercedes-Benz in 1951.


  • Mercedes Benz is in the process of pioneering a fatigue-detection system that warns the driver when they are displaying signs of micro-sleep (when the eyes stay closed for slightly longer than a natural blinking action).