you’re thinking 60s maybe, 90s cars had servos, crumple zones, even abs and tcs. maybe not the bottom tier ones, but it was def available
i was skimming the wiki page for crumple zone and they had simulations for the '86 vw polo
you’re prolly right on the fuel efficiency though

someone was very excited about the bus coming

so we just need an international “data processing” co-op

us humans are pretty good at not chopping annoying peoples’ heads