Molgrips I disagree with you. The thread here is about fast cars, not idiots on the road who will drive carelessly whatever their vehicle.
Fast cars handle better, brake better and accelerate better. This increases the margin of safety massively. I can overtake quickly and with more of a safety margin, I’ve never had any issues on motorway slip roads as the power allows me to slot in safely in the most appropriate and safe fashion, the car holds the road much better in wet and difficult driving situations, brakes much better in the rare occasion that something genuinely unforeseen happens, and there’s been many situations where the best and safest way out if a potentially dangerous situation created by other road users is by using power to get out of that situation – an option not available in a lesser car.
So fast cars increase not decrease the margin of safety, or in other words can be driven faster than an average car in many given situations with the same or greater degree of safety (however this fact seems like a red rag to a bull on here).
Still, since you bought up the subject of drivers, I also think on the whole that the people who own really fast cars (as proper driving machines to be driven quickly, rather than as bling, bling ‘look at me’ show ponies) look after and maintain their cars well, increasing safety, spend money on good tyres, increasing safety, care about improving their driving skills and road craft, again increasing safety, and are knowledgeable and interested about a whole range of motoring issues, further increasing safety. It’s the ignorant drivers who dislike cars and driving, with no interest in improving their skill set you should be far more worried about I’d have thought.
