Also things like eCall (1) that became mandatory a couple of years ago without much fanfare: Fully automatic call/report to emergency services in a serious ac

Also things like eCall (1) that became mandatory a couple of years ago without much fanfare: Fully automatic call/report to emergency services in a serious accident. I think passive safety of modern cars has significantly improved too - they periodically up the ante on what it takes to get full scores in EuroNCAP for instance (2). A "top rating" car from 10 years ago would probably now be scarily-bad compared to the latest requirements that new models ace. 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall 2 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_NCAP https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_NCAP