I won't disagree with your final sentence, but >increasingly safety obsessed and jammed more and more expensive and heavy safety technology Is not a bad thing

I won't disagree with your final sentence, but >increasingly safety obsessed and jammed more and more expensive and heavy safety technology Is not a bad thing. Deaths from driving are bad and we should try and reduce them, whether via legal, social, or engineering means. To say the returns are diminishing says more about how little people drove in the past and how horrifically dangerous driving was.