These corvette crashes confuse me. Is driving powerful cars that difficult? Or are these just terrible drivers? Honest question: I've never driven a really powerful car.
I'd imagine moving up from a standard car you've been driving your entire adult life to a performance car is about as much a jump as it was moving up from go karts you'd been driving your entire childhood to real cars.
Front wheel drive is extremely common, and safe because it'll understeer, and make a lot of noise when you try to take a corner too fast, whereas rear wheel drive cars will oversteer, and try to kill you.