Road Safety: The Uncrashable Car?

Any car that realizes that a crash is unavoidable can not be an "uncrashable" car by definition.

Not necessarily. At the instant that the car realizes that the crash is unavoidable, it must also realize that once the crash occurs the odds are quite high that it will not survive in a repairable state. Faced with it's own mortality, the car would come to grips with the fact it is no longer going to be "a car" and instead begins to identify itself as merely a collection of very crashable individual parts. Hopefully it can do this in a relaxed state of unemotional detatchment or at least doesn't have excessive time to mourn its fate.

Well, most crashes are not necessarily fatal to a car. However, I would expect that at the instant of recognition of its possible fate that its service life would flash before its headlights.

Reasonably uncrushable might be more to the point like the Aston Martin bonded aluminium chassis. Uncrashable is very human dependent.

When I was a kid I saw a car on television (some science show) that would detect objects, set off a warning and begin to apply the brakes. That was over 20 years ago!!

50 million for the design of a car that is supposed to protect a driver that is essentially the problem in the first place. Won't this make poor, unattentive drivers even worse? Like anti-lock braking. People are so use to just hammering the brakes that they don't even know how to control a car in slippery conditions.

How about spending that money on a driver training program.

They sould just go straight to a self driven car. Enter your destination ,sit back and watch the scenery.

"They sould just go straight to a self driven car."

We call that the "bus".