What items are made better than they used to be?

Sdnimm543@slrpnk.net to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 95 points –
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airplanes, microchips, vaccines, lenses, lasers, windmils, solar cells, ... the list is endless !

Cars… old cars were indestructible death traps. Crumple zones kill the car and save the human

Not even indestructible, just big heavy destructible death traps!

There's a video floating around of a midsized sedan from the 60s and the 00s in a frontal offset crash and the old car is absolutely demolished.

This is a consistent argument I get into with my mother. She complains that cars are made of plastic now, and I try to explain that crashing a steel body car would mutilate your body but to no avail. This and her hatred of roundabouts.

that's the kind of positivity I wanted. it is cool how much laser tech has improved in the past few decades

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