> Tesla are unsafe death traps by design.

This is completely untrue by third party metrics (both governmental and not).

They meet crash standards, yes. But the interior design of them encourages unsafe driving. Between putting almost everything inside a touch screen and pushing autopilot (which encourages drivers to pay attention less), they are creating more distractions from controlling their 2-ton metal boxes.

Drivers are licensed operators of heavy machinery that travels at high speed. Let's not encourage systems that turn us into more dangerous operators.

If they were "death traps" the stats would have them as the most dangerous cars on the road rather than one of the safest (in terms of deaths per mile). The grandparent was speaking absolute nonsense.

A tank would be safes car, statistically - its just deadly to wveryone else.

What you've just said is a description of the exact opposite of reality.

Teslas are the safest cars on the road, and not even by a little bit.

Pulling over to adjust the wiper speed? Come on now.

Or use the "Turn on windshield wipers/increase wiper speed" voice command.

https://www.tesla.com/en_eu/support/voice-commands

If that's your safety criticism, that's more evidence for my point. Teslas are statistically safer than any other car by any measure.