Car dealers like it, because they can add or subtract features to sell “safer” cars.

Safety advocates like it because they don’t like to blame the “victim” of a “bad road” or a “faulty design”.

You can have all the anti-locking, crumpled-zoned, quadruple-wide highways you want – and more people will die, at faster speeds, than before.

The net result of “passive safety” is that our transit and land use policies are divorced from any reality that would lead people to drive less.

Neat.

If just the morons were being killed I might agree with you. When the morons are killing other people…