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How to stimulate towards less accidents and injuries on the roads?
The car testing for inside persons safety is important to improve the design of safe cars. The real test, however, is on the roads in real life. There the total combinations of factors related to the car, the road and to the attitude and driving competence of the drivers are working in combination.
This combined situation is what makes safe or unsafe traffic. Which cars and models gives relatively less injuries during one year. Give the "Oscar" to this car model. This will stimulate all parts to go for safe attitudes and careful driving.
The car model having most injuries in relation to the number of units on the roads, could get a negative "Oscar".
Even the journalist and the media which did most for safe traffic during the last year could get an "Oscar". Here again the worst could get a negative "Oscar".
The competition among the car models would have to be governed by a set of roles.
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