The "Safety Rating" may be fantastic, but if it translates into an average fatalities per mile, it's likely the metric is inadequate and shouldn't be lauded too

The "Safety Rating" may be fantastic, but if it translates into an average fatalities per mile, it's likely the metric is inadequate and shouldn't be lauded too greatly (at least, by itself). Of course it could be that reckless drivers purchase Teslas, confounding the statistics. But given the safety ratings only account for how likely a passenger (or pedestrian) is to die/be injured in certain kinds of impact, it is a very incomplete picture. Even if the metric is perfect at measuring this, the average result for fatalities per mile would seem to then suggest an increased number of high-risk collisions per mile.