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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.
Cars aren’t nearly as expensive in the rest of the world, and many countries are including those safety features and more
The US domestic auto market is propped up by protectionist economic policies. Fairly universal than when a market doesn’t have to compete, their prices go up
Vehicles are expensive in all Western Countries.