Would you drive in one of these? 

Photo Courtesy of the New York Times Online.

I dunno. I disagree with the it's safer than a motorcycle argument. I'm not sure I want to be crushed in small steel box. 

I'll take riding with Betty any day over something like that. But as a car person, someone may like that more than a regular car. 

(Above: Betty on the Embarcadero SF)