@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 10 months agoWhat items are made better than they used to be?message-square96arrow-up1102arrow-down12
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish48•10 months agoCars… old cars were indestructible death traps. Crumple zones kill the car and save the human
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish26•10 months agoNot even indestructible, just big heavy destructible death traps! There’s a video floating around of a midsized sedan from the 60s and the 00s in a frontal offset crash and the old car is absolutely demolished.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•10 months agoThis is a consistent argument I get into with my mother. She complains that cars are made of plastic now, and I try to explain that crashing a steel body car would mutilate your body but to no avail. This and her hatred of roundabouts.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•10 months agoI saw that one! A great visual of how much safety has improved
Cars… old cars were indestructible death traps. Crumple zones kill the car and save the human
Not even indestructible, just big heavy destructible death traps!
There’s a video floating around of a midsized sedan from the 60s and the 00s in a frontal offset crash and the old car is absolutely demolished.
This is a consistent argument I get into with my mother. She complains that cars are made of plastic now, and I try to explain that crashing a steel body car would mutilate your body but to no avail. This and her hatred of roundabouts.
I saw that one! A great visual of how much safety has improved