Well, all said and done, it all boils down to common sense. No matter what safety features the car has, it does not take away the driver's duty to drive sensibly and responsibly.
However, increasing safety features may also be counter-productive. For example electronic systems that sense impending crash and automatically apply brakes (i.e., they control the car instead of the driver directly doing it) will lead to bad driving practices simply because the driver now thinks that the car will take care of such situations instead of him/herself. Same applies to proximity sensors (in some cases of course). I mean anything that causes the driver to stop (or reduce) using his/her own senses will lead to a bad driver.
Also, we need laws against people who place the responsibility of their lives on the hands of drivers. These guys need to be penalised for crossing at the wrong places for example.
 S = k.I^2, where S is the amount of stupidity a species possesses, I is the intelligence the species has and k is the universal constant of stupidity.
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