Hi, I was thinking...
In car accidents nowadays it is kind of expected that people have a fair chance of survival even in high speed accidents. You don't see a modern crossover going up in flames and disintegrating over several 100 square meters every time.

Now MODERN light aircraft attract rich people who... want to live and oftentimes throw all the advances in weight savings away for, sound proofing, aircon or de-icing kits nobody needs, or still running 50 year old engine designs which would get smeared by a smaller modern dohc.
So what I don't understand, with comparably (to your average car) huge airframes with loads of space for crumple zones are still being built for weight efficiency almost like in the 70's, even the least enthusiastic airframes like 182's are basically what the automotive world would call deathtraps wich fold in on the cabin and airbags just barely on the horizon and CAPS being the exception to this day

How so?

Btw I hate our nanny society so I'm kinda glad planes are still not that regulated in that regard.

Also this thread has been grounded in compliance to OSHA standards, so it's safe to reply here.