To me, this smells like using "safety" as an excuse to help fuel the business for car manufacturers. And for them, less incentive to make their cars durable and long-lasting.
Not eco, at all

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e·co·mod·ding: the art of turning vehicles into what they should be
What matters is
where you're going, not
how fast.
"... we humans tend to screw up everything that's good enough as it is...or everything that we're attracted to, we love to go and defile it." - Chris Cornell
[Old] Piwoslaw's Peugeot 307sw modding thread