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Vehicles structural designs have been improving continuously for many decades. Airbags were introduced in the 80's, and became legally required in the early 90's. None of that can explain the sudden vastly higher rate of decline in traffic fatality rate in the 2000's compared to all previous decades' incremental improvements.
The anti-SUV anti-GPS and anti-Cellphone crowd keep yakking about all the most dramatic changes in the last decade are detrimental to driving safety. They claim SUV's are unsafe, yet the fatality rate has dropped faster than any previous decade after SUV's took over more than half of all light vehicles sold. How much safer do cars have to become suddenly in order to make up for the "despites" without really any fundamental advancements like seat belt or airbag like in previous decades? They insist on similar counter-factual "despites" for the other two orders of magnitude changes. Does a 30yr old car like C900 suddenly magically become much safer because other drivers moved into SUV's and start using GPS's and cellphones?
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