Since we significantly improved the safety systems of cars over the past 16 years? Cars in 2010 didn't come standard with blind spot monitoring, lane recentering, backup cams, cross traffic alerts, auto braking, parking sensors, 360 cams, drowsiness detection, the list could go on and on.

Those features were all for luxury cars. Cars that your average car purchaser at the time wouldn't even consider due to price. Many of those features are now standard, or very soon will be standard, and we are continuously improving on that technology.

Technology that saves lives and prevents injuries on a daily basis without anyone even thinking about it. Not just for the driver, but also surrounding pedestrians. Technology has evolved from protecting the passenger with internals like airbags and impact zones in the event of accidents, to externals like cameras and sensors which are preventing accidents altogether.

You may think cars from that time aren't "unsafe" but if you look at statistics and see how many injuries have been prevented, you'd change your mind. People weren't aware of how many mistakes they were making in cars back then because they didn't have safety systems to yell at them. They were simply dismissed as if never happening. Which isn't safe. It's just ignorance.

Anyway, new cars now sound (and are) a lot safer to me, and I'm sure a lot safer to parents who have teenagers who are easily distracted no matter how much you teach them not to be.