Sure, they have been declining overall[0]. But here in Germany, we still have 2.3M traffic accidents, 321K injuries and 2654 fatalities[1]. While I'd agree that 2.6K fatalities per year for 83M population doesn't reach the level of crisis (but 321K injuries, even if many will be minor ones, to me sound crisis-adjacent at least), still a lot of these accidents and injuries and deaths could be avoided with tech we have today.

That said, the "drowsiness" cameras in particular seem problematic, while the rear-view cameras for reversing/parking seem not problematic[2].

[0] The 2022 numbers compared to 2021 saw quite an increase, in Germany at least[1], tho. I'd guess it might have a lot to do with people "going outside" again a lot more, including fewer people still being in full-time home office and thus needing to commute again.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Traffi...

[2] Anecdote: my mom recently narrowly avoided running into/running over a kid crawling on the street when she was reversing out of a parking spot, thanks to the rear-camera and sensors which immediately sounded alarms; she'd not have had a chance to see the kid in time without that according to her. While she was going very slow and chances are it wouldn't have been a life-threatening injury, it would have been some injury regardless with a lot more stress and trauma for everybody involved, the kid, her, the kid's parents.

Deaths on the roads have been declining because of the years of focus on safety improvements. Those numbers show that these efforts are working.

We should certainly keep an eye on the features and have productive dialogue about it. But denying safety concerns seems to be a fairly egregious twisting of the facts.

> because of the years of focus on safety improvements.

dont be too hasty to jump from correlation to causation. the numbers were declining before politicians did anything about road safety.

Please define which ranges of dates you are talking about. The first time politician worried about road safety enough to pass a law was in 1903. Are you claiming that number were declining before 1903? Or are you referring to larger scale efforts, like national road safety acts in the USA? That would be 1966 (which is the exact date the current downward trend began, FWIW). Or do you have another time range in mind for "before politicians did anything about road safety."