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Old cars are dangerous…new cars are safer. How old is too old? I spent months figuring out how car safety actually works and I’ll share those details with you.
IIHS Safe Vehicles for Teens: https://www.iihs.org/ratings/safe-vehicles-for-teens
The IIHS website is great but it provides no guidance for “when a vehicle becomes dangerous”. I think this guide gives you a great cutoff and a way to judge what vehicle to buy.
Big big thanks to Drekken Pownz @ProBotsAI for his help with the storyline. Thanks to @excessorizeme for lending me his GoPros.
My amazing thumbnail designer, David Lamata: https://dangerous.industries/thumbnail-designer/
Table of Contents:
0:00 When a big car is worse than a tiny car
1:10 Early car safety was funny
2:56 Steering Wheels Were Deadly…Until We Fixed It
4:48 Proton Mail – Sponsor
6:25 Why Your Car is No Longer Pancaked in a Crash
8:00 How Explosives Inside Your Seatbelt Fixed Airbags
9:05 Let’s Blow up a Seatbelt!
11:10 Exploding an Airbag
13:05 Why Car Insurance Companies Built a 100M Crash Center
13:48 How Car Insurance Companies Shamed Automakers into Making Safer Cars
14:48 Why the newer and smaller car beat the bigger Volvo from the 90s
16:53 How I figured out my 10 year car is just barely safe enough to drive
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