A goldfish named Blub just snagged a Guinness World Record — for driving a car. Seriously. A Dutch engineer, Thomas de Wolf, built a tiny four-wheeled vehicle with a fish tank where the driver’s seat should be. A camera tracks whichever direction Blub swims, and the car moves the same way.
On an Italian TV show, Blub cruised more than 40 feet in under a minute, officially earning the title for the farthest distance traveled by a goldfish in a motion‑sensing vehicle.
De Wolf said he built it just to make his day job more fun, though he thinks the tech could eventually help people with mobility challenges. As for telling Blub he’s a world‑record holder? De Wolf joked he has no idea how to break the news to a fish.
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