swisherred
Senior Member
wouldn't my car be safer to drive today than it was 53 years ago? (for me)
My thinking is this:
53 years ago these cars were tanks made to survive small nuclear explosions and being driven over a cliff with only minor scrapes...for the car...not so much the driver. No crumple zones or airbags or shoulder harnesses...seats that fold forward on their own, BIG metal stabby switches on the dash...everything that could possibly kill you is there. Anything you hit is going to be just as sturdy and indestructible leading to two equally dismantled drivers laying in the grass across the street.
but today...
everything on the road that I could possibly hit has all of these safety features built in. They are plastic and aluminum with crumple zones and breakaway stuff meant to be destroyed in a crash while protecting the driver. Which means that, sure I might still be injured in a crash from all my stabby switches, but I will also utterly destroy anything I hit and THEY will absorb all the impact force leaving me relatively unharmed in my tank.
or so I hope....
My thinking is this:
53 years ago these cars were tanks made to survive small nuclear explosions and being driven over a cliff with only minor scrapes...for the car...not so much the driver. No crumple zones or airbags or shoulder harnesses...seats that fold forward on their own, BIG metal stabby switches on the dash...everything that could possibly kill you is there. Anything you hit is going to be just as sturdy and indestructible leading to two equally dismantled drivers laying in the grass across the street.
but today...
everything on the road that I could possibly hit has all of these safety features built in. They are plastic and aluminum with crumple zones and breakaway stuff meant to be destroyed in a crash while protecting the driver. Which means that, sure I might still be injured in a crash from all my stabby switches, but I will also utterly destroy anything I hit and THEY will absorb all the impact force leaving me relatively unharmed in my tank.
or so I hope....