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

  • Lev_Astov@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Last time I looked up publicly available crash statistics in the US and calculated the per-maker numbers, Tesla was like 1/80th the typical per capita crashes of the average auto maker. That was a few years back, but I doubt that’s changed without some sketchy statistic interpretations.

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      4 hours ago

      They looked at fatal crashes only, which is presumably a very small share of all crashes. They also normalised to per mile driven using a sample of data they have - presumably some data on miles driven by car type.

      Could be sketchy, could just be a much smaller sub-population.