Alexander Pikulenko. Europe: back in USSR

Every driver brought up by life in the Soviet Union, even today, feels uneasy if he does not remove the windshield wipers, antenna and mirrors from his car at night. This reflex has been trained for years and it is extremely difficult to part with it. Foreigners, who occasionally made their way behind our very iron curtain, shuddered out of habit. When they saw how a seemingly mentally normal driver turned away the mirror or antenna from his car, not to mention the windshield wipers...
But now we have become relatively calm with this, but in Europe, on the contrary, similar problems have arisen. But a Western European is not so petty as to steal his neighbor's windshield wipers. In Europe they are now suffering greatly: their xenon headlights are being stolen with all their might. They track down the car and, under the cover of darkness, unscrew it, and sometimes even quite roughly rip out such an expensive pleasure. Not accustomed to such antics, Europe was at first very surprised, then became thoughtful, and now voices began to be heard that it was time to highlight xenon headlights as a separate line in the insurance conditions, and also to either learn to make them vandal-resistant or removable, so that, like in the old days, they could be taken home with us.
They probably will. Here is a car bumper, since it appeared, it has twice changed the material from which it was made, and has also changed its purpose twice. At first it was made of iron and served as a battering ram to break the obstacle without breaking the car. Then it became plastic and was supposed to do less damage to the obstacle than to the car. And now the bumper has to become two-faced. Staying true to the car, do not harm the obstacle. This will happen with the introduction of new material, already created, but not yet brought to fruition. A bumper made from it will be able to determine exactly what it hit. If it is a hard object, such as an enemy vehicle, the bumper instantly becomes as strong as steel to repel aggression. And if it hits something soft, for example a person, then it immediately becomes soft and pliable. The only catch is in the sensors, which can determine what the car has flown into.