They could solve a lot of this with 5 mph bumpers and moving all the electronic crap away from the very front of the car where it is first to get hit.
But the manufacturers don’t care because there is no competition doing that, 40 percent of vehicle cost is now electronics, the production cost of that stuff is low and the margins are huge so they just keep going the way they are.
In the 1950’s every year it was more chrome and tail fins. Now it is more electronic crap that most drivers just turn off anyway but they paid for it up front so who cares ?
I like chrome and tail fins. Electronic crap? Not so much.
Much of this crap is now mandated by our overlords so every moron driver can treat driving like operating an appliance.
People pay for all that whizbang lastest gizmo garbage and most of that crap is never used and or ignored. But they sure are paying up the rump for all that stuff.
I saw a youtube video on sunday from a former mechanic in Ontario, Canada who he said was making $150,000 a year at a dealership. He could do 10 alignments in a day and said he did them right.
He quit his job because the dealership lowered the rate they pay the mechanics and raised the price of an alignment to the customer.
He figured that he would lose $5,000 a year with the new prices and the dealership would make $100,000 from him and the other mechanics on just this.
He now fixes mining equipment.
The average cost of a new car is $49,000.
I bought my house for $51,000 in 1981. I know about inflation but..just damn.