Jenna....We ARE getting close to what the US is like but we are not there yet.
Many years ago a German car manufacturer was looking at introducing a car onto the US market with ABS brakes. From memory it was the 60's but might have been a bit later.
This manufacturer was advised by their legal eagles in the US not to introduce the car with ABS .This was because they were concerned that if a driver of one of their cars braked hard enough and a local car behind it could not stop in time and an accident occurred they would be sued.
The rationale behind this was that the local car owner could successfully argue in a US court that the German car was dangerous because it's brakes were better than other cars on the road at that time.
We are starting to become like this but hopefully it will never be as bad