Apart from anything else, the minimum viable car was pretty much as safe as modern cars (probably actually harder to kill yourself in the original car with its

Apart from anything else, the minimum viable car was pretty much as safe as modern cars (probably actually harder to kill yourself in the original car with its 10mph top speed), and just as intuitive to operate safely. The safety advances came later to deal mostly with problems which arose later (speed and other cars and boredom from long distance low effort driving)