There are no absolutes, but yes, it can be a bad thing if they go too far. As an example, if you have an uncontrolled intersection where people are speeding through and creating a danger that a kid will get run over, you can make one of several choices: Do nothing, Put in a stop sign, Put in a stop light, Bulldoze the intersection.
That’s a continuum of increasingly effective safety measures for the intersection, but while the last choice would be by far the safest, it would also be dumb, because that intersection is there for a reason and people need it to get where they’re going.
Same thing goes for car safety. We can have a car tomorrow that is nearly 100% survivable no matter what wreck it gets into, but it will look like a giant ball, weigh about 20,000 pounds, the driver will be in a suspension web that takes an hour to get in and out of, and it will cost more than a private jet. There is such a thing as too many safety systems.
They aren’t saying that. That’s the problem. Someone should be saying that.
Put another way, I can spend 40 million dollars inventing a suit that will keep me alive inside a volcano or… I can just not go into a volcano. One’s a whole lot more practical and guaranteed than the other. We can spend millions of dollars and add hundreds of pounds of weight to our vehicles to make them even safer than they are now, or we could, you know, just learn how to drive so that we reduce the number of wrecks in the first place. The most survivable wreck is the one you avoid.
BMW is one. You can get regular halogens, or pay extra for LEDs, or pay a lot extra for laser headlights.