Reading Reaction "Cars smarter than their drivers"

This article mentions the safety device in the vehicle. Continental Teves, Inc., Auburn Hills in Michigan, has developed the automotive safety system for the purpose of decreasing the accident and injury. This system is named the active passive-integration approach (APIA). This APIA system has many sensors and control module to perceive the information surrounding the cars such as speed, direction and distance between the two cars. If the car in front brakes and distance between the cars are shortened, this system makes it possible to add pressure in the brake system and also to fasten the seat-belt and to close the whole windows so that the drivers can escape from the danger of an accident. Furthermore, the author participated in the test of this system as a part of a group of automotive journalists in Germany. In this test, several cases and situation were considered. However, the action against an accident risk still depends on the driver.

Recently the technologies have being improved in many fields and especially the safety systems are considered in many industries. Surely this kind of development is valuable and meaningful for our society if it causes to decrease the car accident and injuries. And also if this system is utilized for elder person with slow to respond or handicapped person during their drive, everyone can drive a car without anxiety.
However, I also think that a number of drivers who possess the car equipped this safety system might get to drive carelessly. Furthermore, this safety system might prevent the drivers from paying attention to their surround as well as it prevents car accident. Therefore, it may be that the number of car accident could not decrease.
Nevertheless, I would like to mount this kind of system to my car because I drive with my family. In Hiroshima, Japan, some road is narrow and lots of cars run very close each other unlike the US. In addition, I get caught in a traffic jam very often. Therefore, there is a possibility of car accident even though I drive a car very carefully since another careless drivers also drive their car. I consider that the primal thing is not to rely on the safety system but to interpret the function and master it.