11-28-2009, 10:04 PM
C(-)ris wrote:
[quote=DavidS]
In high school, I hydroplaned around a corner into a fire hydrant. I was driving my 1988 Chevy Impala. I knocked the fire hydrant off it's base (yes, water sprayed out but to the side, not up into my car), put a nice sized dent in my front bumper, and took out the grill above the bumper. Other than the cosmetic issues, my car was fine. This was obviously before airbags.
Your lucky, you could probably drive away from that accident. These days your dashboard would be destroyed, you would need 2 new airbags, a new front bumper( because it is cheap crap plastic) and the medics would have had to come to fix your face from getting hit by the airbag.
are you saying that 20 years ago cars were safer than today's models?