John Williamson: Are car safety improvements making drivers more complacent? 17 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read A driver concentrates on the road ahead. Let's hope increasingly safer cars do not take away from our need to concentrate and to be good drivers, says John Williamson. Photo / Getty Images ON THE ROAD I was a university student in the late 1960s. Back then many students had cars to get around, and in our flat of five students we had five cars. We took turns in driving out to Massey and the favourite was a 1928 Model A. There was a real pleasure in climbing into the back seat, above the rest of the traffic - much like the modern SUV, and chugging up the Massey hill.