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Personal opinion -
Our old cars, generally speaking, require more attentive driver's. We have to plan ahead, think down the road, etc.
We additionally have fewer distractions from TV screens, maps, etc. unless we choose to add them.
Combine this and while the car itself may have fewer safety systems, they most often have safer drivers.
New cars, from what I see, inspire carelessness due to an illusion of relatively invincibility. The car will save you, so why bother driving with care?
I think that the above condition leads to an overall safer driving experience regardless of whatever arguments are made about the safety of the car's systems. What are left are those instances where everything else is out of your control - the random T-bone or unexpected deer jumping into to your car or what have you. There are plenty of those instances where even new safety systems can't protect you - a semi truck sandwich for example. So perhaps life is too short to worry about that sort of stuff...
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