Ms Tree
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I call BS on this one. I am quite sure you can back up your claim that "deaths have increased as structural sacrifice using plastics and aluminum and other means"...
Of course deaths have increased. So has the amount of cars on the road and people driving.
I am sure your implication was that vehicles are less safe now. Your inference is that before the technology improvements and use of high strength polymers and lighter weight metals, that vehicles were somehow safer. That is of course inaccurate and all the data proves it (as others on this thread have shown).
Of course it's BS. I saw this video that explains the car technology quite well. With all the high strength steel and crash zones the new smaller cars are far safer than the older larger cars that everyone thought were safe (which they were for the time). Here is a crash test video of a Volvo 940 and a Renault Lotus in a 40 MPH (80 MPH combined) head on collision. Most would think the Volvo would come out better. They would be wrong.
guess there are still idiots out there who cannot figure it out.