Man some people will invent excuses to complain about anything.
I think that most accidents are far more due to over-aggressive or STUPID driving than over-reliance on technology built into the cars (the upswing due to texting while driving or dialing a phone while driving is a whole other issue)
My 1999 Elantra wagon is dying, Header gasket among the issues, not worth trying to fix. So Ive been considering what to get to replace it. Cant afford a new car. Wont bother to list my criteria, but Ill probably get a Subaru Outback (bit more cargo space, similar or better gas mileage, 4WD, safer, longer lasting). I test drove a 2011 model a few weeks ago, after it had snowed. Found an isolated side road that had snow and ice on it, and also a nearby vacant parking lot. My 1999 Elantra front wheel drive, without anti-lock, is not very safe to drive in those conditions. And I got stuck once in a FLAT driveway with just an inch of snow. Often my solution is not to drive till all the roads can be cleared. But sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do (and often the hardest part is the driveway itself). One particularly bad thing it does when I do a brake-check test at low speed, is to yaw to the right. Probably uneven brake bias.
Anyway, with the Outback, the antilock brakes made it keep dead straight as I hit the brakes hard in testing. I later tried to turn the steering wheel left as I hit the brakes. The car yawed to the left in response to the steering. A repeat for the right had good response to the right. Its been so long now that I cannot recall for sure if it also slightly curved to the left or not. In any case I was really impressed with the dynamic traction control (not unique to Subaru, but first time I'd knowingly tried anything like that). On the deserted parking lot at about 20 mph, I turned left, then HARD right to see what it did. It did not try to spin out, turned to the right nicely. I wasnt trying to do any crazy stuff, and those were relatively low speeds. But I know how poorly my Elantra would have handled that.
I have had the chance to drive a couple of other cars. One detected cars in blind spots. I found that to be VERY useful. Am I lazy in not turing my head nearly180 degrees to look for cars out of view of the mirror? No I CAN NOT turn my heard more than about 45 degrees left or right. Even with peripheral vision I cant see much more than about 100 degrees from the front, or 10 degrees past 90 degrees left or right. Too often there are cars in the left lane along the left rear tire that I dont see in the mirror. So I really liked that blind spot sensor (like, uh, they're not called blind spot sensors for nothing).
I also had the chance to drive with a rear view camera. I use mirrors too, but that rear view camera adds so much more to the safety when backing up.
I liked the rear view camera so much, that I got a system to add to my car. The monitor location was a kludge since there was no place to mount it. So, I placed the monitor sitting on the dash, on the far left side, just to the right of the exterior drivers side mirror. That was a strategic choice to have it in the same horizontal line-of-sight as using that side mirror. Because I got a second camera. And mounted the second camera inside the rear left passenger doors window to point about 45 degrees from left side to rear (The monitor changes from rear view to that view when Im not in reverse gear). So that is a good blind spot camera for anything on my left side in another lane. I know it may sound screwy, but it works for me. Well, it did. I had to rearrange some things and the system went out on me so I have not been using it for awhile. But I feel I was SAFER with it, than without it. And I plan to reinstall it into my next car.
In the merged images below, the one on top shows the rear view camera feed, the one on bottom shows the left/rear blindspot camera feed.