personally speaking, it think it our country shud have amde it compulsory for every car to have driver side airbag as standard item even kancil. juz throw away all those optional accesories and let the consumer buy himself his of favorite sport rims, audio and alarm system.
then, the higher spec can include twin front bags and the high end might have curtain ones.
back in 1996 when i was working with Milan Auto, all Alfa Romeo cars come with at least driver's SRS airbag. high end models like 146ti or 145 Cloverleaf has twin airbags. err, at that time only BMW and merc offer sidebags as optional.
do u know why proton wira has compartment in the left hand side of the dashboard? ha ha that is the place where the passenger airbag for EVERY european and UK spec cars. i do not know what proton expect us (the main supporter of Proton business) to act..maybe put a plastic bag there?
sigh...