Re:Software is eating the car
by throwaway0a5e on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:55PM
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Unless you crash into something going highway speed a car from 1990 or 1980 is fine as long as you're wearing a seatbelt.
The states look good because safety tech that only matters at the extreme end has improved so the drunks and distracted teenager who would have dies had they gone off a cliff in a 20-30yo car are now surviving.
Basically the medium to low speed impacts that people not behaving particularly poorly get into have always been highly survivable.
Re:Software is eating the car
by argonaut on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:32AM
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This is too dismissive of the many ways people get into accidents. I got t-boned by someone who blew past a stop sign on a residential road. Side curtain airbags prevented me from hitting my head on my side window.
The states look good because safety tech that only matters at the extreme end has improved so the drunks and distracted teenager who would have dies had they gone off a cliff in a 20-30yo car are now surviving.
Basically the medium to low speed impacts that people not behaving particularly poorly get into have always been highly survivable.