Convenience and Safety Features in Cars

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a motorist to be more likely to get in an accident.
Americans are more willing to pay for convenience features rather than safety features. Fifty-five percent of Americans who polled said they would rather drive a state of the art car with technological upgrades than an old one without. Most drivers who polled also preferred to spend their money on a GPS rather than spending it on a electronic stability control safety feature. (MetLife, 2011). If you think about it you really start to notice when people talk about what their cars have for features. You don't hear people talking about safety features such as all around airbags or a safety braking feature which brakes when you get to close to a vehicle in front of you. You instead hear people talking about built in GPS or an aftermarket CD player with built in Bluetooth. When asked if they would pay for a safety feature proven to reduce a single vehicle crash by fifty-nine percent and fatal crashes by twenty-three percent, only ...

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