Defective airbags blew shrapnel in folks’ faces, too. Anecdotes are of limited value here; I’m sure you can find the occasional person who has been trapped in a car by a seat belt and burned to death. Policy needs data, not unfalsifiable claims of being a perfect driver hobbled by computer interference.

The article notes:

> A metanalysis in 2015 found a 38 percent decrease in collisions for vehicles that utilized such a system, for instance.