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You're committing a couple of different fallacies there, which let sensationalist media (itself full of fallacies) influence your thinking. First, Teslas aren'
by beat 8y ago
You're committing a couple of different fallacies there, which let sensationalist media (itself full of fallacies) influence your thinking.
First, Teslas aren't exactly rare. Upthread, someone said 200,000 have been sold (have not fact-checked, but it seems plausible). Second, autopilot related fatalities are covered breathlessly in the media, ignoring all of the other, far more common sources of fatalities, such as drunk driving. And finally, there is no media coverage of the number of accidents prevented by autopilot, which I suspect is pretty high.
- beenBoutIT 8y agoTesla has maybe sold 200,000 cars world-wide over the course of 15 years, by its own estimate. GM sold close to 4 times that many vehicles in the US alone in Q2 of 2018. Teslas are rare. https://www.gm.com/investors/sales/us-sales-production.html https://www.gm.com/investors/sales/us-sales-production.html
- Diederich 8y ago300,000 as of February: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc. Current production rate is 107,000/year, more than 1% of GMs 10million/year. However, your point stands: Teslas are, at this point, relatively rare.
- beat 8y agoTesla Model S outsells the BMWs, Mercedes, and Audis in its class. Those aren't considered rare and exotic.