My Matrix has to be the most safety-feature equipped car that I've ever owned. I don't drive any faster in it than before, I'm driving at the same speeds that I've driven at for probably 20 years (I don't like paying speeding tickets, they cost lots of money. then again, if you don't pay speeding tickets....). But I can definitely see the point of the study. Unfortunately they don't cite real-world data, if they expanded their study to pull up accident records from major cities and states and analyzed model years (i.e. car age vs year being studied) I think that would be more significant.
Maybe I'll do that as a study if I ever have to do a statistics paper.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/05/as_car_safety_i.html
Maybe I'll do that as a study if I ever have to do a statistics paper.
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/05/as_car_safety_i.html