Safe from a privacy perspective. Otherwise they’re very unsafe by modern standards. Minimal airbags. Often no ABS. What ABS that is there is less sophisticated than modern systems. Worse structures for crash protection. No stability control. No traction control.

Plus they’re just old. Last year, I spent more on my 20 year old car than I did on my 2 year old car, that includes loan payments on the new car, fuel, tires, insurance, and maintenance.

Get something from this century at least.

Go for a car from the 19th century just to be sure. They might miss a few features, such as differential, but if you’re worried about your privacy it’ll be worth it!

/j obviously.

This article is literally about how they tested 25 brands and zero of them passed privacy review.

What I don’t get is the intensity. I can’t tell if it’s sarcasm maybe, or just a cultural difference in how people talk? Like, I can take a good ribbing about using weird units of measurement, but some non-Americans seem genuinely pissed off about it. Seems like a waste of energy for something that almost never affects you if you’re not American. I mean, most of us Americans were born with it, it’s not like we got a say or anything. We kind of have more pressing matters right now, maybe give us a few decades before we worry about our measurement system?

That would actually be the entire rest of the world. Also the scientific part of the US, as everyone got the memo on that the metric system is just so much better.

Sorry for poking at it but it’s tiresome that I continuously need to add conversions to weird units for Americans because if I don’t I get flushed with messages if I can please use “real units” or “freedom units”. Stop using a badly designed 300 year old system and join the rest of the world already. Even your scientists and engineers already do so, its just that the rest of your citizens don’t want to hop on for some reason.

And hey, you’re free to criticize Europe if you want, there is more than enough legit criticism to be had. It’s just that Europe doesn’t have the level of issues that the US has and at least Europe isn’t screaming around that they’re the best. Europe generally knows that it’s flawed but it’s trying to get better. The US is rolling off a cliff whilst screaming they’re number one. Eh, okay then!

How ironic. I guess you haven’t been on Reddit in the past decade.