What an unbelievably BAD IDEA!
Are they going to start making giant spring loaded safety crash mattresses that mount on the rear bumpers too so when the system automatically stops the car for no reason at all on a freeway so that the car that plows into the back of the “safe car” won’t be destroyed and the driver killed? Are they going to mandate that ALL automobiles without this amazingingly stupid idea will have to have giant front bumper safety mattresses too?
Trust me, technical quirks will kill people...and government mandates to build extra safety devices will certainly enrich those who have paid their respective elected official to introduce and support a new “safety” law that we did not need in the first place.
Way back in the early 80’s or late 70’s (I can’t remember exactly when) I wrote a letter to the editor of the Corpus Christi Caller Times about my feelings of the proposal of a law that would mandate the wearing of seat belts in new vehicles and the retrofit of such in older vehicles.
My point was that if a person want to wear one, he would. If not he wouldn’t. Then I delved into the fact that incrementalism would surely follow to appease the Chamber of Commerce and the manufactures that exist solely upon the dictated requirements of government safety rules.
Sure enough, we went from front seat belts, to rear seat belts, to things that look like some type of truss that straps you into the seat like a Thanksgiving turkey, to front seat baby carriers, to new carriers that face the baby backwards, to backseat carriers, to the physical size and age of children allowed to sit in the back seat, and on an on and on....
It never stops. Once started, the downhill roll, the safety snowball simply grows and grows and grows......like any (and all) government rules or regulations.
It’s time to stop it all and let people be responsible for their own actions and for their failures...for the government can’t change any of that and have not.
"I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help!"..................