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Originally posted by DavidG:
... How can you even argue this? ALL other factors being equal the guy drving faster is more likely to be unable to avoid an accident when some incedent occurs and if an accident is unavoidable is likely to have a much more serious accident. Please prove this wrong.

In your scenario, I don't think either skilled driver would be driving so fast in a situation where they couldn't see what was ahead of them and give themselves ample room to avoid an accident. In driving school it's called "leave yourself an out". As professional race drivers, if they didn't do this, probably neither one of them would have had any success in the sport.

So I agree only that if you assume a driver is driving wrecklessly, that going faster would be more dangerous. Except that if one of those skilled drivers were going 140 rather than 100, then given their skill, they would be doing so in a situation where they could see the full field ahead of their stopping/dodging distance.

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