Comment by EPWN3D

C does not need to be completely safe. But it should be safer by default than it currently is. And I think that "it's a low level language, you just need to be smarter" is too often a cover story for bad design decisions.

I don't think that the choices should be "self-driving cars" and "cars with no seatbelts, airbags, or crumple zones" with nothing in between.