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No, The issue is with conceptions of auto safety becoming a selling point. For example look at the single biggest invention in reducing crash fatality? You would think maybe airbags, seat belts or ABS brakes..... But nope, collapsible steering columns. But we are now sold "death proof" SUVs that are not really safer, in some ways worse. The issue is that safety devices have a diminishing return but fear is a great selling point, I would say there are old things that are death traps (like square body chevys) and things like saabs that I would say are to this day built safer then new cars. If we look at the data for auto fatalities per capita we can see that car safety has not had some magical jump since the late 80s but a more expected gradual change.

As a side note I do and have done a lot of driving and from what I have seen in the last 20 plus years is a slide into cars that are:

• Top heavy (bigger is not safer)
• Have little to no visibility (that then try to make up for with back up cameras)
• Are built not to avoid crashing but to make crashing more comfortable
• Have limited to no driving feed back and over reliance on things like traction control
• Make driving on the same road with them more dangerous (just look at north american headlights)

At the end of the day I would rather drive a car that I can see out of and has a degree of safety devices (seat belts, collapsible steering column, working brakes) then something that is built like a living room on low profile tires that I will at some point crash. Bonus points if it does not explode or catch fire easily (think pintos or teslas).