• 1stTime4MeInMCU
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    11 months ago

    Cars… old cars were indestructible death traps. Crumple zones kill the car and save the human

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months ago

        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.