Posted on 11/21/2024 6:54:02 PM PST by Paal Gulli
By Miles Klee, 21 November, 2024
“Teslas are the safest cars on the road, but most people don’t know that,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) last year. The superlative is typical of the billionaire, and the automaker itself, which boasts that its vehicles “are engineered to be the safest in the world.”
But while Tesla’s cars routinely receive top safety ratings, including from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, accident statistics show that the brand has the highest rate of accidents in which at least one car occupant is killed, according to a new report from the auto research firm iSeeCars.
Analyzing fatal collisions from 2017 to 2022 involving 2018-2022 car models, the group identified the Tesla Model S and Tesla Model Y as two of the most dangerous cars on the road by occupant fatality rate. Though models from Hyundai, Chevrolet, Mitsubishi, Porsche, and Honda occupied the top five spots on the list, the Tesla Model S, a mid-size SUV, came in sixth, with a fatal accident rate 3.7 times higher than the average car, and 4.8 times higher than the average SUV. The Model S rate is double that of the average car.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report....
https://12ft.io/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tesla-highest-rate-deadly-accidents-study-1235176092/
(Excerpt) Read more at 12ft.io ...
See also "Peltzman effect."
So you hate electric cars so much that you post Rolling Stone garbage? WTF??
Rolling Stone is a leftist rag sharing rotten data to make MAGA Musk look bad.
It’s because Tesla drivers have to drive at high speed to make up for all that time sitting plugged in.
FUMK
FUMK
Yeah, but you can always count on someone who is supposed to be on our side posting this crap.
Rolling Stone says “What?”
>>Rolling Stone is a leftist rag sharing rotten data to make MAGA Musk look bad.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I’m no EV fan, but this has “Rolling Stone Hates Musk” written all over it.
It’s a facet of the true pandemic.
Why do we acknowledge Rolling Stone and NY Slimes as legitimate news sources here?
Not trying to be a dick. Honest question. What does a conservative news aggregator with commentary capabilities look like during a 2nd Trump Administration?
I say that because we are embarking on the opening move in the first real fight against the Marxists. Everything else prior to this were “shaping operations.”
Wouldn’t it serve the country better to only post legitimate news sources? Look what the LA Times did by firing their entire editorial board. I’d be more open to cite their sources, than anything NYT, Rolling Stone, of Wapo has to say.
In the end, the next battlefield is against the MSM. It has to be won in order to break the mass psychosis in the US.
Physics is an unyielding reality that challenges the best of engineers. My daughter had a 60MPH sudden impact into a stationary force. The front axles, wheels, engine, folded up and above the drivers compartment. The trunk was behind her head, despite it was a four door car. The passenger seats were well, without shape or observable inventory. The engineers deserved a medal for energy disposal in a collision. The driver's compartment was perfectly in tact. All she had was airbag burns and a few broken ribs and shoulder bruising from the seat belt inertia system.
Rolling Stone is a leftist rag sharing rotten data to make MAGA Musk look bad.“
Exactly. We don’t need crap from RS posted here. It serves no purpose
And assisted driving which people use as self-driving.
Dumb drivers are bad enough but dumb passengers are worse
I’m shocked! shocked I tell ya!
It’s funny. They used to love Tesla.
Now they publish this crap. A few years ago Tesla was going to save the world.
[My daughter had a 60MPH sudden impact into a stationary force. ]
Misleading headline. Article says 5 other car brand models atr worse.
Uh, Rolling Stone?
So very last century.
Who gives a rotten Obama what they write?
If you torture the data enough, you can make it say what you want.
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