Not sure about the environment thing unless you're just looking at fuel and exhaust.
All new cars have crunch zones built in and even a minor slow speed accident can total a car. Old cars took a major accident to be totaled. Meaning repairable, less cars manufacturered and sold. When totaled they were metal and could be stripped and recycled or rust away except glass but they had less o that. New ones have a lot of plastic and materials that will never naturally dissolve so they must be recycled and the mix can be hard to reuse.
Electric cars aren't any better when you take the batteries in to account. They destroy the area where the material is mined and must be specially transported and recycled.
In the neer future you will have to pay to have things recycled or be fined for not disposing of them properly.
It's all about making money people really have been sold a bill of goods about the environment. How did that; plastic bag/paper bag, plastic bottle/glass bottle or even aluminum to replace tin work out. Sounds good when they market it doesn't always work out the way they say.
"Not sure about the environment thing" my first six words !
Do you see anything about safety? I agree about safety that's part of the reason the new cars have built in crunch zones, however, since you brought it up. The crunch zones technology was really developed before air bags, mandatory use of seat belts/shoulder harnesses, and car seats.
Add all that to the old metal cars and I'm not sure if fatalities wouldn't be right where they are now.
Are cars better or worse looking now than they were 15 years ago?
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Not sure about the environment thing unless you're just looking at fuel and exhaust.
All new cars have crunch zones built in and even a minor slow speed accident can total a car. Old cars took a major accident to be totaled. Meaning repairable, less cars manufacturered and sold. When totaled they were metal and could be stripped and recycled or rust away except glass but they had less o that. New ones have a lot of plastic and materials that will never naturally dissolve so they must be recycled and the mix can be hard to reuse.
Electric cars aren't any better when you take the batteries in to account. They destroy the area where the material is mined and must be specially transported and recycled.
In the neer future you will have to pay to have things recycled or be fined for not disposing of them properly.
It's all about making money people really have been sold a bill of goods about the environment. How did that; plastic bag/paper bag, plastic bottle/glass bottle or even aluminum to replace tin work out. Sounds good when they market it doesn't always work out the way they say.
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If they aren't safer, then explain why traffic fatalities have shrunk so much over the past 40 years?
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"Not sure about the environment thing" my first six words !
Do you see anything about safety? I agree about safety that's part of the reason the new cars have built in crunch zones, however, since you brought it up. The crunch zones technology was really developed before air bags, mandatory use of seat belts/shoulder harnesses, and car seats.
Add all that to the old metal cars and I'm not sure if fatalities wouldn't be right where they are now.
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Hmm, maybe.