[carrionpigeon]

The great (unintentional?) irony of that argument is that before seatbelts, that was arguably how cars used to be manufactured. Back then, drivers were often killed in car crashes by being impaled on the steering wheel. Those in the passenger seat would die from being hurled through the window. Despite the elevated risk in those older cars, drivers weren't safer --- they were unsafe to such a degree that it formed the argument for mandating seat belts in the first place.