“The engineering of roads has gotten just tremendously better. We maybe can’t solve the problem of that person getting into that car and being impaired, but we can mitigate the consequences,” said Andrea Bill, a traffic safety research project manager at the Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at UW-Madison.
“We’ve done more things with better roads, more things with better vehicles. We’ve done more things with people having to understand the consequences of their actions. With all of that, though, I think we lead people into a false sense of security.”