Everybody knows that big, old cars with massive chrome bumpers and long hoods are like tanks, making them safe in a collision, right? How else could old-school engineers build in some safety when frontal airbags wouldn't be required as standard equipment until 1998?
The progress made in designing and building safer cars over the past 30 years is nothing short of remarkable, and now there's living proof, literally: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates its crash testing of vehicles has saved 50,000 lives since the testing began in 1995. And to mark the occasion, the organization released a shocking crash test video clearly showing the differences between the 1990s and today.
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