[jdpedrie]

> The government mandates that cars get safer every year and fatalities are down 78% from the 1960s. Whenever government regulates things to benefit people, people tend to benefit.

On some metrics. On affordability, new cars are considerably more expensive. Whether that's a worthwhile tradeoff is beside the point. The GP's point is that there's no free lunch, and your example doesn't address that.

[wvenable]

I never said the lunch was free only that it should be nutritious.

[dingaling]

Amd for the diner, new cars are much less nutritious due to the regulation. They're like some sort of bland protein-shake lunch.

[wvenable]

No, they are more nutritious just like that bland protein-shake is. All those cool hot-rods from the 70s will crush you to death easily while wasting more gas to do it.

[catlikesshrimp]

My father thinks all cars look the same now. Do you mean that?

For my part, cars are more comfortable (bar all controls in a touch panel and ever more propietary software) and fuel efficient