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Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless (norden.social)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"with the same safety features"

Eh, no, cars from 40 years ago wouldn't pass current safety tests

Cars of the same size weight a lot more now than they used to back in the day and safety features is one of the main reasons.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Here is the same thing I posted, but reworded slightly to be more clear.

We make some cars now with modern safety feature that are big and some that are just as small as the econoboxes from 40 years ago. A Honda Fit for example is just as small, but with modern safety features.

I said nothing about weight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

In 1984 the smallest Volkswagen was the Polo, weighing 685 kg. Now it is the Up, weighing 991 kg. That's 45% more weight. Now you specifically didn't mention weight, but all that weight has to go somewhere, especially considering most materials mostly got lighter.