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The safety features are worth millions of crashes prevented and thousands of lives saved, making them remarkably cost-effective.
Capping the luxury features and size of passenger vehicles would do a lot more to bring down costs than removing safety features.


The average cost isn’t the problem; the base cost is.
There are good arguments for limiting vehicle size and weight for safety reasons, but that’s a separate issue.