Who got the exclusive official right for petrol-run cars?

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People had been thinking about cars since the Renaissance age. An Italian named Guido da Vigevano recorded plans for a wind-propelled vehicle in 1335; but, the first real car was built in 1769 by a French inventor named Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. The "car" was actually a three-wheeled tractor that could only go 2 miles per hour, which is slower than the regular walking speed of a person! Because of this, inventors like Karl Benz got to work. Benz was a German inventor who came up with the first patent for a gasoline - powered motorcar in 1886, and he began selling his cars in 1888. It was another German who created the four-stroke engine we see in most cars. Nikolaus Otto invented his engine in 1876, and because it was the first practical gas-powered engine, it made a huge impact on the way cars worked.