Why do cars and vehicle manufacturers not invent safer materials for their casings and bodies to prevent incidents on the road?
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To be honest, they ALL want to be the ones to come up with the Next Awesome Thing, and if there is a chance that they stumble upon something that cost efficiently gives them a market advantage, they won’t hesitate a second to start marketing it.
Some manufacturers have a long history of coming up with new safety features more or less every year. And if you look at those lists of safety features, you are going to realise that many, many things that we take for granted in cars today were considered to be game changers several decades ago.
Example: in the 60’s (or it if was earlier, I don’t remember for sure), cars were marketed as “extra safe” because the steering wheel had soft padding on it, you wouldn’t hurt your ribs as much in a collision if the wheel was cushioned a bit.
The three-point-belt was once a new safety feature that other manufacturers were quick to adapt.
The airbag is still a pretty damn expensive safety feature, but it’s more or less standard on all cars on all markets today.
Cars are USUALLY all plastic at the front nowadays. Have you asked yourself WHY? The answer is that a) you don’t always kill pedestrians if you bump into them any more and b) all modern cars have *deformation zones* in the metal frame nowadays, so that they fold in mysterious ways during a collision. Ruining the car, and often saving those in it from unavoidable death; the deformation zones are more predictable if there is some easily destructed plastic cosmetics in front of the metal frame.
In other words, they are DEFINITELY *trying* already.
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