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That is why my next car will probably be vintage Corvette C1, from 1962. Zero electronics onboard.
by 988747 5y ago
That is why my next car will probably be vintage Corvette C1, from 1962. Zero electronics onboard.
- pudmaidai 5y agoThe chances of dying in an accident in a vintage car far exceed the chance of being hacked. Choosing to drive that car is fine, but definitely not “for safety”
- rataata_jr 5y agoI'm going to get a cheap econobox from 10 years ago. No new cars for me.
- GhostVII 5y agoPretty sure the increase in risk due to worse crash safety outweighs the lower risk of being hacked by about 5 orders of magnitude.
- rataata_jr 5y agoI ride motorcycles. So there's that.
- jjav 5y agoAbsolutely does not. 10 years ago is 2011, very recent. Every useful safety technology is already there, just no remote drive by wire exploits.
- mrtksn 5y agoNewer cars are extremely safe compared to the old cars. It's like night and day difference. In Cuba, I got a chance to ride on some 60's cars. Looks amazing but it's essentially a pretty metal can accelerated to highway speeds. There's no going back to pre-electronic, even pre-computers era if safety is a concern.
- stevehawk 5y agoA lot of the big safety wins (seat belts, airbags, side airbags, backup cams, crumple zones) came before the start of the electronics takeover. You can easily find a decently safe car that doesn't spy on you. And for a few hundred bucks you can easily install a new stereo in them that'll work with Carplay and Android Auto.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThis. The safety improvement from successive features is logarithmic or close to it. Seatbelts win you the overwhelming majority of the safety. Bucket seats with headrests get you most of what's left. Stiff passenger cabin (i.e. the difference between a car from 1981 and 2001) gets you most of the remainder. Airbags, crumple zones, belt pre-tensioners and all the other high tech stuff that the internet worships are basically a rounding error compared to "a strong cabin and some basic stuff to keep the occupants in the right place inside it".
- judge2020 5y agoI don't know, small overlap crashes (which include impact on only about one fifth of the bumper on the driver-side) have only recently been prioritized (circa 2014) and that's when all of the technology seeped into every car model, even on the low end of the new car market. https://youtu.be/TZC8Ykl1esE https://youtu.be/TZC8Ykl1esE https://www.iihs.org/api/datastoredocument/status-report/pdf/49/11 https://www.iihs.org/api/datastoredocument/status-report/pdf... (starting page 4)
- mrtksn 5y agoSure, you can do with no electronics but with electronics you can do that and more. These days, even the cheapo cars have stuff like ESP, Crash Prevention, Blind Spot monitoring, Lane assist and more systems that compensate greatly for driver skills and human errors. The electronics are good at crash prevention and in the pre-electronics, the crash prevention is non existent besides for lightning, markings and the horn.
- jjav 5y ago
- jonathanstrange 5y agoThat's a beautiful car. My favourite vintage car is the Renault Alpine A110. But these cars are not very safe if you get into an accident in comparison to modern cars.
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