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Post 2009 cars regressed in almost every way. It's weird my used Toyota costs less than a third of the latest model.
by mathiaspoint 1y ago
Post 2009 cars regressed in almost every way. It's weird my used Toyota costs less than a third of the latest model.
- deepsun 1y agoIt's weird that car companies say they struggle financially, and earn only about 7% margin.
- milesrout 1y agoThey are safer, more fuel-efficient, less polluting and quieter.
- nothercastle 1y agoToyota trucks and most trucks haven’t seen any improvement in 20-30 years
- cma 1y agoThey stay in lanes, adaptive cruise control, automatic emergency braking, backup and surround cameras, blindspot indicators, pedestrian braking, parallel park assist, side airbags much more common, and they get tested in offset crashes. But phone use while driving cuts back a lot of the gains.
- trillic 1y agoMany of those features encourage or enable easier phone use while driving.
- trillic 1y agoMany of those features encourage or enable easier phone use while driving. Backup cameras existed in 2009…
- cma 1y agoBackup cameras were first in the 1950s or something, just didn't think it was likely on his used 2009 Toyota. They were mandated in 2018 on most new vehicles.