That's an 22+ year old Volvo without airbags. "Volvo was the first to introduce side airbags and installed them as standard equipment in all models from 1995." First 940 was produced in 1990 so it could be 27 years old.

PS: That Moderate overlap / frontal offset test configuration is relatively recent in crash testing. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/ratings-info/frontal-crash-...

I will bet against you here and now. In July 2027, I bet at least 5% of new cars sold in the US will not have full self-driving capability. Meaning they will be unable to drive between two arbitrary street addresses in the US without a licensed human operator.

So your being that we'll have at most 95% self driving cars in ten years? That seems uncontroversial... Unless there's a law banning human driven cars by then, I would expect to see that level of ownership just from the people who like the act of driving cars.

If you're betting against driving between two arbitrary street addresses, I'll bet that there won't be a single capable car.

Using towns in northern Alaska not connected to the main graph is cheating! :)

That video is from 2009. I'd argue that mechanical safety innovation has slowed quite a bit in the last eight years. The real question is whether the recent electronic safety features: backup cameras, lane departure, blind spot warnings are worth the new car premium.

Not sure what you mean by "mechanical safety" but in addition to advances in energy dissipating crash structures, the use of advanced and high strength steels has risen dramatically in the past couple years.

But that's a 30-year old Volvo, no? In 2017, buying a 10 year old car would mean getting that Renault.

Well, I'd have put money on the Volvo coming out better. Thanks for the link.