| (Not) sorry (in the slightest), but this is a crook. Stop getting your technical info from ideologues in the reddit comments. Each of those investments is an order of magnitude less valuable than the first. Wear your seatbelt. That's 90% of the battle. Crumple zones in particular punch below their weight class and are grossly misunderstood on the internet. Their primary purpose is to let the front of the car hit something before the cabin starts decelerating to buy time for airbag deployment. Force absorption is a secondary nice to have. They only make a meaningful difference to the forces in the cabin at a narrow range of speed. Side curtain airbags punch above their weight class though because there's not much else to help you in that direction of movement. ABS is pretty meh. It only really beats the operator by enough to matter in specific situations. If your reflexes are so bad that the lane keeping is what's keeping you in the lane there's other problems. I'm not gonna pick apart every one of these improvements and they do add value. But they do not add the amount of value you are acting like they do. >Why aren't performance improvements scrutinized the same way? How often are huge trucks given a pass Because you're simping vehicular safety theater. So where the dollars and cents actually matter, commercial trucks bought by commercial interests who can push back, what gets adopted is actually based on what's real vs emotion driven screeching. Like for example semi trailers got ABS real early. It's extra valuable in applications where weight changes a lot. >despite never having anything in their truckbeds? Because the 2nd row of your car gets so much ass? |