When does a car stop being safe?

Andrew Lam December 12, 2023
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Regain your privacy over your email: https://proton.me/andrew My newsletter for video releases and behind the scene content: https://lamandrew.substack.com/ 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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