I have had that same thought -- safer for whom? Not for everyone else! I hate trying to see over the gigantic hulks of metal so many others apparently cannot live without.

As far as that goes, when my son was a new teen driver, he fell asleep driving my little Neon. He crossed the center line, hit a culvert and flipped the car four or five times, end over end, according to the guy who saw it and lent his phone to my son afterward.

My son woke up in mid-air. When the car stopped flipping, he crawled out the back window, which was totally gone. He was sore for a few days but barely had a scratch on him. He fared well in a small car.

Thank God he didn't hit anyone else as he blissfully snoozed across the road. That would have been a different story.

Until the accident, he used to find driving sleep-inducing, he said. Not anymore. :)