That's the part that gets me...they CARE about safety, yet do you see them taking any special driving courses, to better understand how to safely maneuver a car, so they can avoid trouble in the first place? NO....they just buy some massive hunk of steel and hope it saves them. Prevention is the safest road travelled, and this is nowhere near as safe as prevention.

...To me these people are not paranoid at all, they are just looking for one more "quick fix", since obviously their time is too precious to think about things as important as not getting into a crash, and instead focus primarily on what happens after a crash.

Best policy: get a safe, nice handling car (there are many out there)....take an SCCA street school (course A), and learn how to maneuver that car....be sure to understand the concepts fully....it's the best saturday and $180-260 (around 260 if you need to rent a helmet) a driver could ever spend, period. It's also a fun course, not some textbook preachy sleepfest.

Heck it taught me everything I needed to know to keep myself from creaming the car in front of me when my entire braking system failed...and I cleared him just fine, and managed to turn into a side street where i coasted to a stop...if I didn't have the knowledge I had form that course I probably would have just freaked out and nailed that guy...instead I knew if I was to turn hard to the right, and put on the gas then correct to the left, the particular car (2.3l mustang) had enough room to clear, and the space between him and the curb was plenty to squeeze through (although much noise and tire smoke was involved in the maneuver) ....the part I would have freaked on was I couldn't even see his bumper when I made the maneuver...that was one less insurance claim, and one less potential injury.

To sum it up: safety comes from the driver, not the car....improving the driver is the best route.