[99LeCouch]

Bingo for the last line in Jacob's post.

Badly paraphrasing Tom Clancy: "He figured [his caution] came from wearing a shirt on his back and not a foot of steel..." in reference to the difference between infantry and tankers.

Same thing on the roads. Give people a "safer", more tank-like automobile. They'll still figure out some way of killing themselves in it. It's just going to take dumber driving.

And for every big car out there, there's something yet bigger that can crush it into a pancake. Whiz-bang safety features or not.