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What's up with the hatchet job? Is that normal for IIHS?

• tmuir 9y ago
  This is similar to the question "When did you stop beating your wife?" You baselessly claim the action is true, and frame the question as if any answer must first acknowledge your baseless claim as true. I see this as more of a contextual rebuttal to Tesla's ubiquitous PR campaigns that follow every prominent accident. Tesla loves to trot out all of the reasons we should blame the driver in nearly every case. That isn't problematic in isolation. But the fact that it is interspersed with a marketing pitch taints it as an infomercial. Right after we learn that the driver wasn't paying attention, and that all of the warning systems were ignored, we're reminded that Teslas are safer in the aggregate, and that N Teslas have driven this stretch of road M times, without any other accidents. There is also zero accountability for these PR statements. There are no methodologies explained to any degree that can be verified by an outside party. The data is private. The IIHS has given their data, the source of that data, and the methodology that was applied. What was it that you expected from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety?