Dream On, I don't think the power or size of your car has much effect on safety, except that big ones handle trees better.

I have a couple of powerful cars. Apart from their ability to overtake quickly, & tow trailers, they do everything about the same as the smaller car. It is the loose nut behind the steering wheel that counts.

My kids are a good case study. Eldest daughter, a good eventer & show jumper. She would plan every stride her horse took, & drives the same way. Even as a beginner driver, she would see that dog 100 metres ahead, & be ready for any action it may precipitate.

Son, good tractor driver at 12. Into speed events, & a good go kart driver. He would see the dog, but it took a couple of years, & a couple of minor bumps before he started to consider how its behavior might effect him.

Youngest daughter, painter, photographer, a car is just transport. She would, even today, be blissfully unaware of the dog, busy with her phone, CD or radio. She still collects scrapes & scratches at about one every couple of months. She is too disinterested to be a good driver, ever.

So stop being unkind Dreamer, give your lady that vroom vroom car. She will be more careful of it, if she loves it. Being careful not to damage your car is a pretty good way to avoid damaging yourself. Perhaps that is where the art comes in.

I think I am a bit like hasbeen I have driven very fast, often.
But too have been a bit naughty.
A road workers job is never ever safe.
Our factory floor is your play ground.
Put twenty, thirty if you want, signs out restricting speed warning.
And still an elderly gent or lady will drive around every cone every sign and drop in to the deep hole you have dug.
On such a day a police motor cyclist ,well known and liked stopped for smoko.
He was a Christian and a gentle person.
Horrified! and shocked as trucks flew past at double,even more the speed limit he said *I they can not see my bike*
He moved it in to sight and came back for his cup of tea.
Traffic slowed,radio had warned them.
After smoko I said pitty you could not hang around for a while,
He said well just for a bit.
I had our truck move and the first truck was 80klm over the limit 60!
He mounted his bike and it took 57 klm to catch that truck.
Some drivers are their own worst enemy.

There is so much more that I’d like to express about the art, or the skill of driving.

And I will, in future threads.