[Scoundreller]

> all the tech like distance sensors that go into modern fenders which has to be replaced and carefully recalibrated

Weren't all those sensors supposed to reduce collisions, your fault or by others'?

[bombcar]

Even if they cut collisions by 50% or more, if they more than double the cost of the ones that still happen, it’s a wash.

Still worth it, likely, because saving lives doesn’t really have a dollar amount (cue fight club) - but certainly there.

Old steel bumpered cars would have zero costs at 0-5 mph collision; plastic breaks even at nearly zero. But the newer car safety is much higher.