Re:It takes now 53 weeks salary to earn same as 30 weeks in ...
by paulddraper on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:43PM
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You're being downvoted, but you are correct: driver and passenger airbags alone increase the price of a car several hundred dollars.
Until recently, I owned an airbag-less 1991 Saturn SL1, with the automatic seat belt, which was Saturn's very last-ditch effort to avoid installing airbags and raising the price of their cars.
Extend that trend across construction, transportation, electronics, etc. In many cases you literally cannot find an equivalent product sold or even legal to legal nowadays.
Until recently, I owned an airbag-less 1991 Saturn SL1, with the automatic seat belt, which was Saturn's very last-ditch effort to avoid installing airbags and raising the price of their cars.
Extend that trend across construction, transportation, electronics, etc. In many cases you literally cannot find an equivalent product sold or even legal to legal nowadays.