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bystrikethree ( 811449 ) writes:
While systems like these are nice in theory, this is going to add a significant cost to the price of a vehicle. ABS, Air Bags, Seat belts, they all add to the price of a car. A car is already unaffordable... which is fine if you did not build your entire society around driving a vehicle to get anywhere. The underclass will be VERY underclass soon.
byMobileTatsu-NJG ( 946591 ) writes:
ABS, Air Bags, Seat belts, they all add to the price of a car. A car is already unaffordable...
Prices are high cos people are paying them. General bellyaching over the cost of safety features is just a way to get you to accept that price and pay it, you likely heard about it from a PR agency hired by the Big Three.
The prices of cars follow ability to pay, not cost to manufacture.
byBoB235423424 ( 6928344 ) writes:
Profit margins are not that high. All these requirements do in fact raise the price. People are paying the prices because every make/model is going up in cost to account for these things. There isn't cheaper competition beyond older cars staying on the road longer (which statistics show is the case). Car loans have also increased from 3-4 years to 6-7 years to keep monthly costs lower. The other unmentioned impact is the cost of insurance. While all these safety features should make the cars safer and thus lower insurance costs, the costs to repair cars has gone up dramatically and rates have gone up to account for such.
Heavy handed regulation and mandates tend to lead to two classes and purge the middle class. Every time government makes things more expensive, more people move down the economic ladder and more things become only affordable to the wealthy.
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bygeekmux ( 1040042 ) writes:
Cars have a massive amount of profit in them because of all the "standard" features you're forced to pay for.
I really don't want to hear that no-margin excuse when we blatantly see car manufacturers desperate to make sales, discount thousands off the price. 20 years ago when I wanted the bare-bones stripped down model, they literally couldn't negotiate much on price because there were no features to haggle margins with. Today, that is obviously not the case.
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