Domin akwai lokuta a tarihi da ya kamata a tuna da su, muna tuna wanda ya ƙirƙira motar da kuma wanda ya fara tuka ta. Kyautar da ta dace ta zo ta hanyar ɗan gajeren bidiyon da ke tunawa da kasada da Bertha Benz ya yi, a ƙarshen karni. XIX, mafi daidai a watan Agusta na 1888.
Matar Karl Benz, wadda ta kirkiri mota ta farko mai suna Motorwagen, ta yanke shawarar nunawa mijinta ingancin tunanin da mijinta ya kirkira, a kan kasadarta da kudinta. Iyalin Benz sun riga sun zuba jari mai yawa a cikin "mota", na farko a duniya. A fahimtar Bertha, motar mijinta na iya zama babbar nasara ta kasuwanci.
Ka ce eh ga wanda ba a sani ba.
Ba tare da sanin mijinta ba kuma tare da abin hawa har yanzu ba a halatta ba, Bertha Benz ta yanke shawarar yin tafiya a bayan motar Motar Model III. Daga Mannheim zuwa Pforzheim (Jamus) ya yi tafiyar kilomita 106 - tafiya mafi tsayi ta farko da mota.
Kalubalen ba komai bane illa sauki. Bertha Benz ta fuskanci matsaloli da dama a cikin tafiyar kuma basirarta kawai ya ba ta damar, misali, ta yi ɗaya daga cikin alloli dinta wanda ta ɗaure safa da shi, maganin hana ruwa, ko kuma ta yi amfani da gashin gashinta don kwance bututun mai.
Tare da ’ya’yansu Richard, 13, da Eugene, mai shekara 15, matar Karl Benz ta yi aikin man fetur na farko a tarihin Mota, a lokacin da ta ratsa birnin Wiesloch, sai da ta sayi karin man fetur daga wani kwararre a fannin sinadarai. Wani abu da kuma ya mayar da wannan gidan mai na farko a tarihi.
Ƙarƙashin ƙarfi da ɗumamawa tare da ƙoƙarce-ƙoƙarce, injin Mota Model III shima dole ne a sanyaya shi da ruwa koyaushe yayin tafiya, tare da Richard da Eugene sun tura motar zuwa tudu mafi tsayi.
Duk da haka, kuma bisa ga tarihi, Bertha Benz da 'ya'yanta har ma sun sami damar isa Pforzheim, inda matar Karl Benz ta aika da sakon waya, tana gaya wa mijinta nasarar shirin. Bayan ’yan kwanaki a wannan birnin na Jamus, Bertha Benz ya koma Mannheim, a cikin Motar Mota na III, don haka ya fara “kasada” da ke faruwa sama da shekaru 100.
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