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The point is, those features were available to people buying S classes 15 years ago. So not only were rich people safer for those 15 years, there's still a huge
by throwawaylaptop 1y ago
The point is, those features were available to people buying S classes 15 years ago. So not only were rich people safer for those 15 years, there's still a huge subset of people that even today drive old cheaper cars instead of buying the Hyundai that has it today.
There's probably a 30 year safety difference between rich and poor.
- s1artibartfast 1y agoSo what? Seems like a good thing safety is improving.
- throwawaylaptop 1y agoIdk so what. We can go from there once we at least are talking about the same thing correctly, so I tried to correct the misconception by OP. One random idea... Instead of giving well off people $7500 to buy huge luxury electric cars that are safe, we give poor people trading in old unsafe cars (that they've owned for over 12 months) $7500 to buy a car with side airbags so they don't die as easily in accidents.
- s1artibartfast 1y agoWell the government does both. Also, the 7500 is so the rich people buy electric instead of gas. Also, 7500 seems too much for the risk reduction. How much is that per life, tens of millions? More?Seems terribly inefficient. You can save a life for $150 and most people don't want to. The government is actively moving in the opposite direction, defunding that as a waste of money.