Need for Cash Prize for motor vehicle improvements

The Christmas Season brings with it the great and sublime hope that some non-profit foundation will assume the role of a very generous Santa Claus, and will offer a $2 million reward to:
---the inventor or team of inventors anywhere in the world who in calendar year 2009 invent a technological improvement to any motor vehicle that significantly improves:
(a) that motor vehicle's level of consumption of fossil fuels; or
(b) the level of safety to human beings from driving or riding in that motor vehicle, including in a context when an accident occurs.

A separate proposed $2 million reward could also be offered to the inventor of team of inventors anywhere in the world who in calendar year 2009 invent a technological innovation that:
(a) significantly reduces the quantity of pollutants emanating from a motor vehicle or resulting from the manufacture of that motor vehicle at a factory;
or that:
(b) significantly enhances technology used for the recycling of any and all parts of a used motor vehicle no longer being used that has been discarded by its owner.