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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.
Yep, that $2 sensor is really driving up costs.
If we’re talking about the radar+cameras, it’s about $30-40 each. Not insignificant, but for basic AEB it’s a small price for something that massively reduces collisions
And running the wiring with the rear lights wiring is sooooooo expensive to install.