I have no problem with this argument existing in my thread. Just be cordial about it. There's valid arguments made by both parties, and anyone reading this thread can learn things from both, even if there is disagreement, and even if I think one individual is more right than the other. That said, Newton's laws always have the last laugh in a wreck.
As far as fairy tales go, I'm a believer in all of the angry pixies crammed into my 72V 25.2AH pack of Molicel P42A. I like to subject them to lots of road vibrations, and torture via the electrical outlet, to make them angrier. The more pissed off they are, the more they move my ass down the road.
As someone obsessed with the occult, demons, magick, and things that cannot be proven in the physical realm or with current scientific understanding of Newtonian physics(although things get a lot more interesting/open-ended in the Quantum realm, especially where entanglement is involved), the concept of "luck" is valid to me. Remove all of the aforementioned, and you can call it "favorable circumstance" or "unfavorable circumstance", and the same point is still made. There's always variables you cannot control in this chaotic universe. My vehicles are meant to embrace this. Any of the high performance machines I create is intended to be a rolling chaos magick ritual, manifest in vehicular form. It's meant for at least occasional hooning, street takeovers, racing, and general overall jackassery on public roads. A means to put a new twist on the spirit of bosozoku.
Three wheels doesn't scare me. I understand and accept the risks that come with it, and from a safety perspective find it highly preferable to two wheels. I've always had balance and coordination issues, and very much prefer static stability when at a stop and prefer the greatly reduced risk of falling off at speed provided by being reclined on three wheels vs being upright on two wheels. Damn do I want four wheels though. The performance benefits that come with four wheels are compelling, nevermind the safety.
That all said, I share the road with 8,000 lb rolling codpieces whose operators are often staring at their ironically-named smart devices instead of the road, so wheel count doesn't matter much if I get pulverized by one at speed. Rear wheel lock and flipping over is not at the top of my list of potential threats, even if it is always kept in mind.
When I upgrade my vehicle to where I want it, it's getting a new name: "Mayhem". I want to give it a rust-colored paint job, a fallout shelter sign as a rear derailleur access hatch, have a big, fat, red anarchy sign sloppily spray painted on the side, pentagram wheel disc covers on one side and the Unicursal Hexagram on the other, a racing number "333" inscribed in a triangle to represent the demon Choronzon, and a silver Baphomet sitting Indian style with its wings spread out and the torch on its head acting as an LED light for the "hood ornament" up front. I want to give it a Mad Max meets witchcraft sort of aesthetic.
If I ever go 4 wheels, the Auto Union Type C V16 streamliner that Bernd Rosemeyer took to 270 mph will be the major inspiration for the body shape. I want slippery, so that maybe I only need 6-8 kW to hold 100 mph on flat ground, but have 25+ kW on tap for acceleration. Four wheels would open up design possibilities and benefits that three wheels didn't allow for, mainly, having no net lift at high speeds, without a drag penalty for achieving it. I can take advantage of ground effects and Venturi tunnels with four wheels, while keeping CdA the same as with the designs possible with three wheels. The fact that the trike kit gman1971 uses for the rear has a narrower track than the front track of the KMX also works well with both a Kammtail design or a side-profile half-teardrop with a underside rear diffuser, leaving ample space on top to place solar panels. With adam333's rear suspension installed on my KMX, the rear end would function as an effective DeDion setup. This idea, should it come to fruition, has the potential to corner like a race car. And unlike some shifter kart, I'd actually have wheels capable of traversing deep potholes on bad roads AND full suspension. Plus I'd have human power and solar power as backup sources of motive force, as well as space to place a small 20cc or so ICE to act as a generator in a series-hybrid setup.
