While we try our best to be safe drivers, not everyone has the awareness or the skills to manage Valley traffic. If you’re driving an older vehicle, there are some reasons which might make you consider selling it and buying something newer and, ultimately, so much safer.

Technology

Unfortunately, older cars don’t have the safety features that are part and parcel of newer cars. Technology has been pumped into new vehicles. Detection systems make the driver aware of proximity. Not only what the driver might be getting close to hitting, but also what might be too close to him. Cameras, rear-facing, side facing, and even surround sight, offer guidance. (The backup camera became mandated for all cars sold from 2018.) Emergency braking systems in the event of a head-on collision can save lives. Blind-spot monitoring, parking guidance, and other features continue to become standards in the industry since the public has an insatiable desire for automobile safety.

Safety ratings

Families take safety ratings under careful consideration before purchasing a new car. If the unthinkable happens, the guy with the safest car wins. Better frames, airbags, safety sensors, and other considerations have made vehicles safer even though they don’t appear to be as well made as their earlier counterparts. Older cars were all-metal tanks, But, new cars are made of materials that have been scientifically designed, tested, and proven more effective for crash control.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Association

Older models don’t measure up to the safety protocols demanded of newer cars. Newer cars aren’t just about bells and whistles. Every year, automakers make cars safer. The reason is that standardized safety, while it is a relatively new concept in auto manufacturing, has progressed steadily. The National Highway Traffic Safety Association has only had standards within the last fifty years. Beginning in 1970, the NHTSA determined its mission: ‘to reduce deaths, injuries, and economic losses as a result of motor vehicle crashes.’ It wasn’t until a full eight years later (1978) that the NHTSA began testing cars for frontal impact using crash dummies. Since that time, they have tested and rated vehicles and worked with automakers to produce cars that exceed safety standards, which were unthinkable just a few short years ago.

Car insurance savings

The people who know your car safety better than almost anyone are automobile insurance companies. Generally speaking, the safer the car, the lower the car insurance rate. While car insurance savings isn’t a reason by itself to buy a new car, their willingness to offer a lower price is a clear indication that facts, not only testing, back up their decisions.

Safety is about choices

While you can’t make other drivers behave more responsibly behind the wheel, you can take defensive measures that will protect you and your loved ones from bad drivers. One of the ways to do that is to drive a safer car. Since newer cars far surpass the safety of older models, driving a newer car becomes a safety measure.

If you’re looking to get rid of your old car, why not give us a call? It’s the fastest, easiest way to get that death trap out of your driveway!

If you are in the Phoenix Metro area and want a no-hassle cash offer on an old, wrecked, unwanted, salvage or burned car, SUV, van or truck, give us a call at I Buy Junk Cars. 480-771-8290.