[nubinetwork]

To be fair, some municipalities do actually require old cars to be fitted with seatbelts... air bags, not so much, because apparently changing a steering column is too hard?

[rovr138]

Well, I just noticed I said 'should' and not 'shouldn't' which I wanted to say

But to your point,

While they might not be required to retrofit, one shouldn't stop defining new safety standards.