And yet, car companies are still incentivized to make unsafe cars, at least in the US. Bigger vehicles are more profitable, easier to advertise (for features a

And yet, car companies are still incentivized to make unsafe cars, at least in the US. Bigger vehicles are more profitable, easier to advertise (for features and/or as a status symbol), suffer less emissions regulation. They also are more likely to kill pedestrians or occupants of other cars, and do significantly more damage to anything else they hit.