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I think there's pretty good evidence those safety features have helped a lot! People were almost twice as likely to die in a car accident in the 1980s than toda
by icambron 10y ago
I think there's pretty good evidence those safety features have helped a lot! People were almost twice as likely to die in a car accident in the 1980s than today [1]. I'm not an auto crash expert -- and I admit that safer roads and better traffic enforcement could be a portion of this -- but I'm pretty sure the lion's share of those gains are simply more crash-tolerant cars.
> and I guarantee my behavior changed due to it
But did your behavior change enough to make up for how much more dangerous it was? Would the median driver's in the same situation?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...