Will there still be room for the driver? _{Beam me to the grocery store Scotty...meat department.}

Will there still be room for the driver?

Yes, but you will need a pull-behind trailer if you want to carry your groceries home.

No driver.. problem solved! You are a genius.

Next all we have to worry about is from the car to the front door. So many hazards still to preclude.

Bureaucratic doublespeak, if I ever heard one, or is it makebelieve specification. Actually I read a report from a nice old lady driving a french wheeled light tank (a puma?), road legal too. As the gun barrel was still in the turret, I think nobody cared to tangle with her. Plus, she had the mass advantage. The tank, not the lady!

Why don't they just ban driving, then everyone is safe?

Xanasax

I doubt if the present type of American car will be affordable for most people much longer.

I am a morbidly obese man (which, by itself, is life-threatening), and in many cars I am within 8" of the steering wheel airbag (sometimes only 2 or 3"), though the driver's seat is all the way back.

Airbag deployment itself would very likely kill me.

Rather than add more airbags, I would like to have the opportunity to turn it off (once the car is running). I'll take my chances with the hard steering wheel.

Similarly it would be convenient if a parent could turn off the airbag where a child sits or a car seat could be placed.

The system could re-enable itself every time the car is turned off and turned on again. I wouldn't forget to turn mine off, nor would the parent forget to turn off the one in front of his/her child, either.

But until I lose the weight, my life is at risk from that which is supposed to save my life.

Rufus

I think that the people in Congress or the agencies that make up these types of rules/requirements are just self serving. Without these fail-safe protection devices most of them and their ilk would probably not have evolved and "the world would have been a better place, a better place".

Viva Darwinism and natural selection. Clean up the gene pool and make personal responsibility the norm not the exception.