Unless you crash into something going highway speed a car from 1990 or 1980 is fine as long as you're wearing a seatbelt. The states look good because safety t

Unless you crash into something going highway speed a car from 1990 or 1980 is fine as long as you're wearing a seatbelt. The states look good because safety tech that only matters at the extreme end has improved so the drunks and distracted teenager who would have dies had they gone off a cliff in a 20-30yo car are now surviving. Basically the medium to low speed impacts that people not behaving particularly poorly get into have always been highly survivable.