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That’s fair. My wife’s car has adaptive cruise, and I really like it. My car does not. Still, anything made in the last ten years is exponentially safer than the cars I was driving in the late 80s and early 90s. I have to think my perspective is colored by that. We were lucky if there was even a passenger side mirror.
Unfortunately it’s all undone by:
It’s especially sad when a very large portion of the deaths are kids 0-4 in some residential driveway at a very disproportionate rate:
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/road-users/pedestrians/data-details/
Edit: for cell phone damage specifically, look at the uptick in deaths following the 2010s on many studies when smartphones became commonplace.
You ever drive a Ford T-100? Thing didn’t even have a roof!