Cars should be built to last, and safety standards were already high 12 years ago, at least in jurisdictions that bothered to check them. As a broader extensio

Cars should be built to last, and safety standards were already high 12 years ago, at least in jurisdictions that bothered to check them. As a broader extension of the article's point, testing only crashes is a fundamentally flawed approach to the survivability onion, the safest car is the one that doesn't get into a collision in the first place, i.e. one that's smaller and provides the driver with better visibility. More recent cars may be more heavily armoured but less safe.