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Drivers of cars will drive less well and pay less attention if they believe the car (and hence their person) is "safer".
The general term is "risk aversion."- If a person carrying out any task thinks the task is "safe" they will not pay as much attention to the task as they would to a task they think is "dangerous."
If a person is doing a task perceived as "without risk or danger" there is no need to concentrate- after all nothing bad will happen if they get it wrong.
So a person putting a new roll of toilet paper on the hanger will not pay much attention, as the worst that can happen is they drop the roll of paper, and then they can pick it up, and try again.
On the other hand a person building an atomic bomb will pay close attention, as if they get it wrong *B*O*O*M*....
So an unintended result of safer cars was that it made the drives of the safer cars drive less well, as they felt safer, so they thought "hey I can take this risk, I have Air bags, ABS, Traction-Control, Pre-tensioning-seat-belts, and IDS" while a driver of a car with none of them though "If I so much as hit a lamp post I am a gonner..."
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