Improved car safety regulations

Until now, car safety regulations have concentrated on occupant safety (crash-test, airbags...). While this has a positive effect by reducing casualties for car occupants, it has resulted in bigger and heavier cars, which not only increases fuel consumption and emissions, but also increases the risk of casualties for small vehicles involved in accidents with big cars. It makes smaller car users feel unsafe and deters consumers from buying them.

We therefore advocate that safety regulations also address crash impact onto other vehicles. This would be an effective way of reducing road casualties. Also, it would make small car users feel safer, which should be an incentive towards the purchase of smaller cars, thereby reducing emissions, congestion, and energy consumption.