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As part of getting my driver's license you have to spend half a day at a class on driving risks, you get to spend some time driving in really slippery condition
by henrikschroder 11y ago
As part of getting my driver's license you have to spend half a day at a class on driving risks, you get to spend some time driving in really slippery conditions, getting the feel for ABS and traction control.
They also showed some actual wrecks so you could see what happens and how they break, and they really stressed that even though it might be tempting to buy a cheap, old, used car, DO NOT buy something built before the year 2000, stay on this side of the millennium, older cars are dangerous!
- ams6110 11y agoThey're not all equally bad. Even in the 1960s, for example, Mercedes had introduced unibodies, collapsible steering columns, disc brakes, crumple zones, side-impact reinforcement. A lot of what became standard, mandatory safety features were pioneered by Mercedes and a few other companies that have always had safety as a concern.
- Aloha 11y agoCitroën actually introduced the first production unibody in 1935 - Ford in 1936, and Nash in 1941. 1949 Chrysler Imperial was the first car standard with Disc Brakes, Mercedes can however take credit for the crumple zone, and probably side-impact reinforcement. Unibody as a safety feature is more complex, Unibody cars are not inherently safer (quite arguably a perimeter frame may be safer for some collisions), and until recently they were often heavier for the same size car - it wasn't until the late 70's-80's where a unibody could be lighter than a BOF car because of enhanced computer modeling - generally a unibody however is safer than the X-frame as exemplified in this video.