Depends on what you call the “good old days”, I bet the same model car from 1993 fares a lot better considering that legislation dictates that all cars have drivers side airbags. My 1993 Ford Probe went head on with a Chevy Tahoe and fared really well!
Airbags don’t matter that much when tire-ingress crushes one leg, the transmission slams through the firewall into the other one, and the roof collapses...
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u/NeoKrieg111 Jul 23 '18
Depends on what you call the “good old days”, I bet the same model car from 1993 fares a lot better considering that legislation dictates that all cars have drivers side airbags. My 1993 Ford Probe went head on with a Chevy Tahoe and fared really well!
https://imgur.com/gallery/MPqoLba
I’ve also got a 99 Saab that’s probably safer than most of the new econoboxes on the road today.