LOL !
That brings back ancient memories...my family had one (an Isetta) when I was not yet in preschool. We lived in Hawaii, where the little
3-cylinder(?) engine was just fine for island driving. I think the poor thing rusted out, like all cars used to do there in the salt air.Personally, I prefer a tiny, thrifty, safety-free, bug-like 'squash-me' car.
Methinks the weak link in driving safely is the driver -- better skills would save far more lives than more and more expensive equipment.
I find all the nonsense *mandatory* 'safety' equipment a huge, annoying, sad waste of resources. I don't need a car to tell me my tires are low, for example, or to automagically wrap a seatbelt around my neck as I get in/out, nor to complain that my seatbelts aren't fastened.
I *always* wear a seatbelt. I brake more efficiently than ABS (at least the 1st generation ABS, the only one I've been tested against). All it takes is practice.
All those (inert) systems complicate my car, add weight, cost, reduce fuel efficiency, reduce relibility, and do not improve *my* safety. Driving carefully, and rehearsing skills/emergency manuevers occasionally in a safe place, OTOH, have paid off several times in my driving career.
An ounce of prevention's worth a pound of legislated pseudomitigation.
According to my dad, driving in Boston is just plain scary, PERIOD. ;-)
Grins, James Arthur