If you don't get all the safety options available shame on you (assuming you can afford them) . If one option prevents one accident you paid for it 100 times over in insurance costs, attorney costs, legal costs, hospital costs and funeral costs !!
I respectfully disagree. I like my backup camera, and I wish I had blind spot detection, but you can keep all the rest of the "nanny-ware".
I have no use for lane departure alarms (or correction) or adaptive cruise control, unless they can be easily defeated.
I actually
drive my vehicles.
I deeply mourn the loss of the manual trans as an option in most new cars - which doesn't have that much to do with safety, but it still is a part of the larger issue.
The nanny-ware (in the name of safety) is contributing to the dumbing down of society, as a a whole. If people are not forced to pay attention to what they are doing, then they
don't. Then, when (not "if") the system malfunctions, they don't have the presence of mind to realize that - oh crap! - they need to
do something, until it's way too late to react. These are the same people who walk down the sidewalk, and occasionally right out in front of traffic, with their faces buried in their phones.
I call it "situational awareness". It's really a thing.
I should add that I drive a Big Horn. It doesn't have all the goodies that the up-level trucks have, but it does everything I need it to do, and more. (I don't care anything about playing music off my phone through the u-Connect, but it's nice to be able to display Waze on the screen in front of me, instead of having to deal with the phone.)
The only things I would have would be better lights (which I will take care of, when I have the free time) and blind spot detection.
But, as they say, "Oh well..."
Regarding the "fragility" of all the features, it doesn't hurt that I'm a bit of a geek/techie/gearhead, and can usually fix a big chunk of what is likely to go wrong. If nothing else, I can disconnect the battery, and let everything reset. (A "reset" fixes a
huge amount of stuff, during my day-to-day activities.)