>Abs has been mandatory in the us since 2012 The average US vehicle's age is more than 12 years. >and was very common long before that (my base model truck fr

>Abs has been mandatory in the us since 2012 The average US vehicle's age is more than 12 years. >and was very common long before that (my base model truck from 1999 has it) My non-base-model car from 1995 didn't. >we can consider cars without abs statistical noise by now. I'm not so sure that's true. But even if it is, that doesn't mean that there are no meaningful differences in safety between an exclusively new (or at least very recent) and maintained vehicle fleet and the general population.