Many people consider this to be the world's first car.. In the early 1800s, Cornishman Richard Trevithick began building steam carriages with wobbly wheels. Around this time, Trevithick's American counterpart, Oliver Evans, built a steam-powered river digger called the Oruktor Amphibolos that could advance on both land and water. Both Trevithick and Evans eventually shifted their attention to building steam trains, but another Cornish inventor, Goldsworthy Gurney, was convinced that the idea of ​​steam-powered road vehicles still had legs. He designed one of the first steam-powered carriages that galloped on wobbly pins, just like a horse. When Gurney realized that wheels could do the job much better, he built massive steam buses and ran a service between London and Bath. It was eventually driven out of business by horse-drawn stagecoaches, which were faster and faster