By todays safety standards, little cars are still a **** of alot safer than all cars were just afew years ago. Thats 'few' by my life's standards being 50 years old. My younger years saw the advant of seat belts, shoulder belts(when they were seperate items, what a pain) padded dashs, disc brakes, power brakes/steering, air bags when the thought was you would NEVER have to wear a seat belt again with them, dual master cylinders/anti-lock brakes, colapsable steering colums(prior to them the driver most always died in a headon where now today it's proably one of the safer places to be in a car in one),child seats-not when I was little, it was sit down and stay put, the safeist was when the car was full so there was less space to be tossed around in. Oh and there is also better headlites, side lites, better asfault, wider roads to drive on with reflective lines now showing even the other edge of the road along with better street lites(whens the last time you heard fo someone hitting a bridge enbuttment-you just don't anymore with the newer guard rails being used) and radial tires that last 50+ and than some in milage(if you got 10+ on a bias tire you were doing good in the early years). Do not have enough time or space to go no any further but I could. 1967 saw the big advancement in the putting of safety equipment on cars, **** prior to that you even had to pay extra for a heater, wipers, or carpeting etc. The main thing with all vehicles today is what you hit and how you hit it and this is coming from someone who is on #7 Metro/Swift even after walking away from hitting a fallen tree across the road at 50+MPH and being polevaulted though the air and land nosed into the roadway 57 feet further down the road driving #2 metro(yes it had a slight bend in it after that but no glass broke and as I said I did walk away from it and got a free ride home from the sheriff along with a nite off from work).
