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Tesla Has Highest Rate of Deadly Accidents Among Car Brands, Study Finds (www.rollingstone.com)

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Automotive research firm finds that Tesla has higher frequency of deadly accidents than any other car brand

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (55 children)

Which is odd, because most electric vehicles (including some models of the Tesla) have better crash ratings due to having a crumple zone where the engine would be. Assuming that’s still true, there must be another factor that tips the balance towards deadly accidents. Some thoughts:

They are heavy cars. Maybe it’s safer for the passengers but more deadly for the other vehicle.
Maybe Tesla drivers are more irresponsible than other car owners.
Maybe the torque and acceleration is too high, causing people to lose control more often.
Maybe something that doesn’t get rated in the crash ratings causes deaths, eg. electric locks which are unable to open when power is lost, a likely scenario during collisions.
Maybe the FSD features are causing more collisions to happen.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Re bullet 2. Irresponsibility.

My theory is that it is isn’t the badge on the car, it’s the fact that people’s grocery getter now was the performance of a high-end sports car from a decade ago. And, like a with a sports car, Teslas are designed to encourage users to have “fun” driving. Every test drive from a Tesla store ALWAYS includes a segment where the store rep encourages people gun it onto or on a large open road.

Before Telsa it was the German manufacturers who dominated the commuter-car-with-sports-car-performance market. And guess what? Those people drove like a-holes.

[–] taladar 4 points 1 month ago

Those people drove like a-holes.

That is not true. I mean the bit where you put that into the past tense. They still do.

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