I am perfectly willing to sacrifice some safety for a bit more robustness in minor collisions.
Frankly I don't care about pedestrian safety. I'll stay off of the sidewalks, people should stay out of the road. If everyone just watched where they were going and paid attention this wouldn't be such an issue. The goal should be to not hit pedestrians, not to try to make cars less likely to injure them when they do hit.
But you wanted a car that is better at surviving collisions? why do you need that if you never run into anything?
Ahh, other cars run into you and thats completely normal and needs protecting against, but magically pedestrians, cyclists, and motor cyclists should keep away from you.
Frankly I don't care about pedestrian safety. I'll stay off of the sidewalks, people should stay out of the road. If everyone just watched where they were going and paid attention this wouldn't be such an issue.
Except pedestrian/car collisions are not always pedestrian fault, what about the careful pedestrians? they dont deserve safety? Also not all car drivers are you. So you want a special car for "better" drivers. Good luck with those economies of scale, they're already available and you won't like the prices. The road and road-related area is shared with vehicles and pedestrians, they interact often, accidents happen.
Perhaps you only be allowed to drive your special vehicle on completely segregated roads with zero pedestrians..... since you have no regard for them and think they should keep out of the way. They probably think the same in return, you should be somewhere else.