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Have you driven an i3 yet?  I don't know what you mean by rear collision avoidance or sideswipe avoidance, how could a car avoid a rear collision?  It has parking sensors, if equipped with the parking assistance package, which would help you avoid hitting something while parking, but if someone hits you from behind at 100mph, there is no way for the car to be able to do anything about that.  I believe the Tesla Model S and X can avoid being side-swiped but I am not aware of the i3 having this capability either, in fact I've almost been side-swiped before in my i3.  The frontal collision avoidance technology only comes with certain packages, so be sure you have the package before you try it.  A member/owner on FB found out the hard way that he did not have it, which was really sad because he paid cash for the car and did not have full coverage because he claimed he had not been in a wreck in 20 years and thought full coverage was not needed, so he got to pay to have the car fixed out of his own pocket.  That all said, I've only had mine brake for me once in 13 months and 10,700 miles.  Once is all it takes for it to be worth it but what I'm trying to get at is that you have to be really distracted to get to that point, it is very late and I don't believe BMW guarantee's you will avoid a collision, just that the effects of the potential collision (if not avoided all together) will be minimized by the car self-braking before impact, again, if you have that package on your i3.