Originally Posted by
Maelochs
This is real. Car engineering has evolved tremendously and very rapidly. People survive a lot more wrecks just because of crumple zones, multiple airbags, passive protections like bolsters and head rests .... wrecks that would have killed not so long ago are treated with a couple aspirin nowadays ... the only reason deaths haven't really plummeted is that more stupid people with even less regard for safety are driving while even more distracted. IMO.
Yes, the car certainly has improved but the driver hasn't.
Notice recently that new cars have so many semi-autonomous capabilities available. There's self parallel parking, rear view detection, lane deviation, forward collision mitigation, etc . A great ad slogan that will never be used would be "The car for the bad driver."
Since the only factor that prohibits serious reduction in road safety is the driver, the obvious solution would be to remove the driver. Can't wait for self-driving cars.