Comment by torginus

I distinctly remember that there was an article years ago about this. Automotive bodies have been mandating features for decades, and were doing followup studies.

The introduction of seatbelts, ABS, ESP all came with noticeable drops in accident rates.

However it was noticed, that these new driver assist features didn't reduce the number of accidents accordingly. These systems are not new. We know they don't really help.

Why do this?