Safety Updates

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Some thoughts on Safety and these era vehicles for a first vehicle.

The front ends just absolutely crumble in a frontal collision with minimum to literally no protection. The dash is mostly metal and will provide again little to no protection, may even injure the occupants more.

Now the rear of the truck is well protected with the ever lovin steel bumpers and lots of material before getting to the driver. These vehicles were built in an era when safety standards where just getting into full swing.

For a first driver, for my daughter I would consider something more like a more modern Suburban with Air Bags and Frontal, Side crash crumple zones.

Expensive to put gas in, to keep her eyes on financial focus, and a literal tank engineered out of many materials to keep her safe.