Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Brands, Study Finds

Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by SoftTalker on Friday November 15, 2024 @04:33PM (#42151373)

What makes sense to me is the top 3 cars:

Tesla - autopilot that really isn't, gets fooled in many situations, driver lulled into not paying attention, can't react quickly enough when the computer bails, and ends up driving into a bridge abutment at 75mph.

Kia - cheap cars built to minimum safety standards driven by young people who aren't very experienced drivers.

Buick - cars driven by geriatrics whose declines in vision and reaction speed probably should have resulted in their licenses being revoked five years ago but who still insist on driving themselves.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by vikingerik on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:19PM (#42151874)

I'd also venture that the profile of Tesla drivers is also a factor along with those other two brands. I'd be pretty sure that Tesla owners collectively drive more aggressively than the average car on the road. Teslas aren't being driven by soccer moms and careful grandmas.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by LUmBULtERA on Friday November 15, 2024 @08:15PM (#42153293)

Model Y are driven by tons and tons of “soccer moms” and dads. Probably the most common car now per capita, at least in my area.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by buffington on Friday November 15, 2024 @07:33PM (#42152995)

Where I live, I'd estimate that a third of the passenger cars are Teslas. No data to back that up, but that's what I tend to see day to day. The diversity of drivers is significant enough to suggest that "all kinds of people" drive Teslas.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by SoftTalker on Friday November 15, 2024 @10:18PM (#42153843)

A third? Wow. Where I am they are not exactly rare but uncommon enough that I still notice them when I see them. I see a few a week I'd guess. Pre-pandemic I knew one person who owned a Tesla. And now... I know two people who own a Tesla, but one of them lives in another country.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by duderific on Friday November 15, 2024 @06:47PM (#42152652)

Lots of soccer moms driving Teslas in the Bay Area. Know several myself.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by aziaziazi on Friday November 15, 2024 @06:37PM (#42152567)

Does the insurance cost vary between two cars almost identical in every relevant points but the brand? Not a rhetorical question.

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by not_a_bot_4sho on Friday November 15, 2024 @09:50PM (#42153704)

This runs completely opposite of my observations. Especially with Model Ys, which seem to be driven exclusively by parents. (Call them "soccer moms" if you want.)

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by incognition on Friday November 15, 2024 @11:47PM (#42154358)

Soccer moms are aggressive man. Don’t know where you are. One wrapped hers around a tree here tho

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Re:Tesla Has the Highest Fatal Accident Rate of All Auto Bra... by bsder on Thursday November 21, 2024 @05:17PM (#42209263)

> Buick - cars driven by geriatrics whose declines in vision and reaction speed probably should have resulted in their licenses being revoked five years ago but who still insist on driving themselves.

It takes until 85+ years old to match the accident frequency of the 16-25 years old cohort. Should we ban young adults from driving?

The reality is that the drivers tests should be MUCH more stringent for all cohorts. The reality is also that not having a car in the US is a horrible handicap.

So, we are stuck in a very suboptimal spot until self-driving cars come online.

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