Here's a story on the first long distance car driver (a woman !). Read it, because you'll realize just how bad it must have been:

https://media.daimler.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/Augus...

That was a rigid tricicle. No tires. Oh, and if you don't know how to make brakes out of old shoes, no brakes, or at least not for long.