Old cars promote road safety
07/25/2015
Classic cars and youngtimers are often made the scapegoats of road safety because they were naturally designed to be less safe than today's cars, which are well prepared for front, side and rear impacts and all other types of accident.
In one respect, however, old cars, especially those from the seventies or eighties, are clearly superior to their modern descendants - in terms of "visibility".
Have you recently driven behind a modern estate car, a contemporary SUV or a modern saloon? And could you easily see the center-mounted brake light of the car in front? Probably not, because either the rear window of the car in front of you was too high (SUV), or it was too small to allow optimum visibility, or it was so darkly tinted that it was impossible to see through anyway.
A BMW 318 from the 1980s, for example, offers much more; it is almost completely transparent above the waist.
That is also safety! All those additional high-mounted brake lights, which only became mandatory in the nineties, are useless if you can't see them ....
