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The safety features are worth millions of crashes prevented and thousands of lives saved, making them remarkably cost-effective.
Capping the luxury features and size of passenger vehicles would do a lot more to bring down costs than removing safety features.
Eh, I’m somewhat for less shit to break. But I also think cars should be the size of the 90s Miata. And simple enough people can work on them at home.
I’m against most of the nanny safety items that only exist to annoy me if I do something potentially unsafe.
Witch nanny systems specifically only annoy you if you do something unsafe ?
Dinging noises for seatbelts, for instance. I always wear mine. But I don’t think cars should annoy you if passengers don’t. Or if I put something in my backseat.
I genuinely just want a basic car. No frills. No nav, no infotainment, just a basic radio with Bluetooth. I don’t want lane assist, or for the car to have radar when parking telling me how close I am to the drive thru window.
So you think it’s smarter to wear a seatbelt, you wear yours but are somehow annoyed that it might ding at someone else for something you yourself think is unsafe and wouldn’t do? Let’s ignore the fact it’s law to wear it in almost every state let alone city. I for one don’t want to have someone turn meat torpedo and kill themselves let alone someone else.
The backseat warning is so kids don’t get left in the back as easily and neglectful parents have an extra step to ignore which plays against them in court. Are you somehow for some reason for children playing pizza oven because their parents neglected them?
I’m just curious, are you also against it being illegal for fridge doors to be produced with a latch that only operates from outside the fridge?