Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
And probably a couple of older siblings sitting in the back seat, no seat belts no crash resistant passenger compartment, no head rests, no air bags or electronic warning sensors. How on earth did we ever survive?
Things were a little less crazy then. About 1963 or so, I was fiddling with the door handle in my step-mom's car on the Santa Ana freeway and fell out of the car in rush hour traffic. She stopped the car, got me back in the car, and chewed me out for messing with the door handle, but if that had happened today, I'd have probably gotten hit by 40 or 50 cars before traffic could stop. When I was a teen, around a decade later, LA was crowded, we thought. About 7million people in LA county. Now it's upwards of 12 million. Where I live now, the whole state has a bit less than 4 million people. And native Okies who don't travel much think the traffic's heavy here.