[lm28469]

> As an aside I have lots of friends who own fast cars who haven't gotten into accidents by avoiding them.

As in driving aggressively and avoiding accidents they were about to create ? Statistically most accidents are rear ends and side collisions, both of which you most likely won't see coming with enough time to react let alone move your car. And getting plowed by an SUV when you're sitting in a sport car means your head is on the absolute worst position you could think of.

Bikers say the same "I'm small, agile and fast, no accidents for me", yet they're disproportionally represented in crash stats.

[windexh8er]

You're example assumes everyone is the victim. Except that all side collisions and rear ends could be avoided by the stiking vehicle stopping faster. Which vehicles are statistically more often found as being the striking vehicle? It's likely that larger vehicles which can't stop quickly are. And in your example you use an SUV as the plowing vehicle, probably because it's mostly assumed you'll be hit by that type of vehicle, partially for the reasons I just stated.

Again, with the biker statement, since you'll never find a data set that would show accidents avoided on the particular vehicle there's a huge swath of underrepresentation of the reality. And one can argue proportionally bikers are in more crashes because there are less of them overall on top of the fact that most drivers of cars and trucks do not pay considerate attention to smaller vehicles.

And finally my comment about the "friends with fast cars" was a tongue in cheek response to the fact that the parent I was replying to made a large jump by saying SUVs are safer because of size and weight.

[dragontamer]

> Except that all side collisions and rear ends could be avoided by the stiking vehicle stopping faster

Or you know, not being on distracted autopilot: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-dri...

People get distracted, and when they're distracted they'll crash into things.

[windexh8er]

Are you implying distracted driving is unique to only Tesla vehicles? The link you posted implies that, and then you immediately generalize your argument.

[dragontamer]

I intend to argue in the general sense. People will, in general, be distracted while driving. One protection is to simply be in a heavier vehicle so that you can survive more collisions when you're in a distracted state.

An alternative solution is "don't be distracted", but that doesn't seem to work in practice.