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The safety features are worth millions of crashes prevented and thousands of lives saved, making them remarkably cost-effective.
Capping the luxury features and size of passenger vehicles would do a lot more to bring down costs than removing safety features.
Fucked if I know. All I know is groceries haven’t set off the seatbelt alarm while car/boosterseats set off the check backset alarm.