Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile
henry ford
Henry ford
Rudolf Diesel invented the Diesel engine in 1897 (which is why it is called the "Diesel Engine"), but i do not know if he was the first person to use it in an automobile or not, though I believe he was.
No, he was killed in an automobile accident on December 21, 1945.
He is credited as having built (and sold) the first production automobile.
Bridget Driscoll (1851 - 17 August 1896) was the first pedestrian victim of an automobile collision in the United States.
The first person to get run over and killed by a car in the nation was Irish woman Mary Ward in 1869. In the United States, the first person was Henry Hale Bliss in 1899.
Henry Linfield of Brighton has the dubious place in history of being the first automobile driver to be killed in a accident
she killed her cousin
Carl Benz of Germany is credited with inventing the first practical automobile.
The first person to build a gas engine was built by Daimler or Karl Benz.