I want to get my panel van licensed to carry 2 passengers in the back

[Taily]

Well, to be fair expand that graph back to 1950. No really great advancements since 89. ABS and airbags.

As for speed cameras, they are a waste of time. Camera cars are worse.

The age when kids start to drive should be 10. Not on the road but in a controlled environment. Earlier exposure to driving will lead to better drivers.

RBT? No way I want to share the road with drunk drivers. They are a good thing.

I can think of a few more and they don't have to be "great" advances to save as many or more lives:

Electronic stability control - including electronic brake force distribution - even traction control if you think about it, driver monitoring (dozy drivers die), side mirror blind spot alert, lane departure warning, active cruise control/automatic braking, seatbelt pretensioners, even passive systems that only activate in a rear impact - such as submarining seats, brake release systems (which I never knew about until we were stationary behind traffic then rear-ended by a bloke in his BT50 at almost 70km/h a couple of years back), crumple zones (ANCAP/EuroNCAP) - these two have almost single handedly changed build designs towards unitary contruction.

There is probably as many more systems again, such as tyre/brake sizes and technology etc. A bit more than just ABS and airbags. I also think that kids should be taught earlier and in a more dynamic environment (think track days) than what they are now. If we had higher driver standards from earlier on we would either get less "young and dumb" type and more survivable accidents that would enable the vehicles own systems to work much better.