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Nothings stopping you from buying a 90s beater. For the rest of us the safety features are worth it. I’m betting it costs more to manufacture a safe modern car than a 90s one.

>It turns out that a driver of a car 18 or more years old is 71 percent more likely to die in a bad crash than the driver of a car three years old or newer.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/09/study-measu...



> Nothings stopping you from buying a 90s beater.

A lot actually, it's not legal to drive them in a lot of city centers

71% more than virtually 0 is not really a problem imho. And still, we could have modern cheap cars with modern crash safety for much less than the computers on wheel they're trying to sell us




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