Re:Cause of Fatal 2021 Tesla Wreck Was “Excessive Speed” and...
by ajross on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:06PM
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Are you saying a Lexus has never had a driver fatality from inattention? That seems ridiculous. What are you actually claiming here? If Lexus is safer than Tesla that seems like something someone can measure. Have they?
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Re:Cause of Fatal 2021 Tesla Wreck Was “Excessive Speed” and...
by MBCook on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:28PM
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> Are you saying a Lexus has never had a driver fatality from inattention?
That appears to be a deliberate misreading.
The GP was pointing out Tesla refused to follow well known best practices from around the beginning of Model S creation. Despite it being pointed out to them as a reckless choice numerous times.
They never said Lexus was perfect, they showed evidence Lexus appears to have taken the risks involved seriously in a way Tesla hasn’t, as evidenced by numerous recommendations from NHTSA that they did not follow or followed belatedly.
Re:Cause of Fatal 2021 Tesla Wreck Was “Excessive Speed” and...
by BoorishBears on Thursday February 09, 2023 @06:41PM
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I gave a concrete example of a systematic decision that Tesla is making that has resulted in avoidable deaths. I showed how a comparable system was trivially capable of avoiding the same cause of death due to its manufacturer making a decision in the opposite direction of Tesla: Putting human life above the marketability of a piece of tech.
If you want to somehow "interpret" into saying no one has ever died driven distracted in a Lexus, you're free to, but that's an absurd leap I won't bother engaging with. There's always some room for (mis)interpretation, but I think you're taking a football field on this one.