> So these are wonderful, if you do not consider that they will have to share the road with actual cars which can easily pancake them and kill the occupants. A

> So these are wonderful, if you do not consider that they will have to share the road with actual cars which can easily pancake them and kill the occupants. A much better approach to crash safety than trying to survive a crash, is to not to crash in the first place. Companies need to make a distinction whether they want to protect the occupant from the collision beyond his control, from protecting the occupant from himself. European accident rates started to plummet when ADASes became a thing in mass market cars. If you can limit the maximum crash velocities to 60km/h with ADASes, then I believe car-to-car collisions can be made much, much less lethal even in such light cars.