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1982 was still early days of the push for car safety. It was better than before, but the standards are way higher now. 50 years ago, 40% of all fire departmen
by papito 4y ago
1982 was still early days of the push for car safety. It was better than before, but the standards are way higher now.
50 years ago, 40% of all fire department calls were related to car fires. Now, a car catching fire, especially spontaneously is almost unheard of.
- IcePic 4y ago1982 is also some 80 years into production of gas driven cars with people riding in them. It can't be that people before 1981 were fine with a large possibility of getting roasted in their cars and only later did someone figure it would be good to not die in a fire because a law said so? Also, there has been statistics on how often cars of different types burst into flames and EVs are very low in that regard. The fires are nastier, but far more common. (random hit from googling such statistics) https://www.motorbiscuit.com/electric-vehicles-catch-fire-considerably-less-gas-cars/ https://www.motorbiscuit.com/electric-vehicles-catch-fire-co...
- papito 4y agoPeople were exactly fine with it. The regulations only became a thing after "Unsafe at Any Speed", 1965. Cars had no seat belts and people drove drunk ALL the time. Coincidentally, I randomly just listened to a Stuff You Should Know episode just a few hours ago: "Back When Ford Pintos Were Flaming Deathtraps": https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/sysk-live-back-when-ford-pintos-were-flaming-deathtraps/id278981407?i=1000404389072 https://podcasts.apple.com/is/podcast/sysk-live-back-when-fo...
- hulitu 4y ago> Now, a car catching fire, especially spontaneously is almost unheard of. It depends. In DE you hear it almost daily. There are design rules which are only taken seriously since some (5) years. And implementing them is expensive and time consuming which leads to "tailoring".