Nuovapanda
I think very seriously about the harm I might do to anyone, no matter what I am doing. While that would not necessarily influence my choice of car (because the way that you drive is far more important than the car's design in terms of safety), we should all be grateful that car designers now have to take secondary safety seriously. By secondary safety I mean the factors that influence your chance of survival once the crash has happened - rather than primary safety, like good handling, visibility, brakes and so forth which prevent a crash happening in the first place.
Forty years ago, the interiors and exteriors of cars were lethal in the event of a crash. Many people were quite unecessarily maimed and crippled for life as the result of relatively minor shunts. I love those older cars, just as I do my classic motorcycles, but I am always aware when driving them to leave a very wide safety margin around me. Crashes happen, and often they will not be your fault but someone else's (note that I do not say "accident", because very few crashes are accidental - almost all are preventable).
I have been lucky enough to walk away from three potentially fatal crashes which wrote my car off. Two of them were not my fault and I could not have avoided them. One of them was entirely my own fault and I could easily have killed my brother as a result. I have also attended (by pure chance) and assisted at several more serious crashes where people were severely injured. When you see what steel and glass can do to human flesh and bone it sobers you somewhat.
I love driving, and I enjoy driving hard and fast where the road and conditions allow. But the kind of bravado which belittles safety and pokes fun at those who take it into account has no place on today's roads. If it was your child, mother or sister who died as result of some other driver's lack of care, how would you feel?
John