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[sinister]

How many times have you heard: "I wish they would make cars the way
they did in the old days."

This video dispels that myth.

You know how we always think about what big huge tanks the old cars of
the 50's and 60's were for size?

And how we talk about how there is so much plastic on the new cars
that if one of the old tanks ever collided with a new car, the new car
would be demolished?

Well, someone in the insurance industry put that theory to the test.

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interesting video though!

[shaun]

thats nuts! i wonder what speed they were doing?

[Bunta]

5th gear did a test like that just the other day with mini vans. One brand new 5 star safty rating the other same model but 9 years old. The results were similar to that...

[soo-bah-roo]

our physics class at uni checked this out this morning, apparetly it as a 70mph crash so each was doing 35. i know this will sound bad but an issue with new safter cars is that in serious crashes people live alot of the time now, which leaves them with injuries that doctors arent used to and more people in wheel chairs where 50 years ago they would have just died without having to live with the pain.

[sinister]

That's a pretty retarded analogy. Basically you are also similarly saying that minor injuries in the past most likely lead to people being in wheel chairs and now days they are back at work 2 days later simply waiting for their insurance to come through. Ultimately, the cars are safer and I dare say per that the death rate has dropped from say 2010 in comparison to 1960 when an accident did happen taking in to account the increase of vehicle ownership in that period.