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Specific models aren't really relevant in the comparison are they? The title of the blog says it all. > Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of a

Specific models aren't really relevant in the comparison are they? The title of the blog says it all. > Model 3 achieves the lowest probability of injury of any vehicle ever tested by NHTSA Which makes and models are they comparing? All of them. They aren't telling you who ranked 4th or 7th or 23rd because it doesn't matter. The graphs are just there to give you a basis for comparison.

Someone1234 8y ago
> The graphs are just there to give you a basis for comparison. Which is far more relevant if they're comparing against well performing 2018 models relative to vehicles from seven years ago. Why include the graph at all if it has nothing to say?
- cptskippy 8y ago
  They're not comparing 2018 models to 2011 models. They're comparing their cars to the safest cars in the last 7 years. You're assuming incorrectly that a newer model vehicle will always be safer than an older vehicle. The graph they're showing is: > SELECT TOP 50 * > FROM [carSafetyList] AS c > WHERE c.ModelYear >= 2011 > ORDER BY c.SafetyRating The other makes and models aren't relevant because Tesla has asserted that their cars are safer than any other vehicle tested in the last 7 years. If they're being truthful then that means you can pick any car the NHTSA has tested in the last 7 years and it will rank no higher than 4th on their graph. Would the knowledge that that a Volvo XC90 ranked 4th or 5th change anything? No, therefore why identify any other model?
  - Someone1234 8y ago
    > They're comparing their cars to the safest cars in the last 7 years. They said the "top 50 vehicles." They didn't say the top 50 safest vehicles. > The other makes and models aren't relevant because Tesla has asserted that their cars are safer than any other vehicle tested in the last 7 years. We're meant to take Tesla asserting something, and not backing it up with facts as gospel? We literally don't even know what the source of those percentages are, for all we know Tesla created them.

Someone1234 8y ago

> The graphs are just there to give you a basis for comparison. Which is far more relevant if they're comparing against well performing 2018 models relative to vehicles from seven years ago. Why include the graph at all if it has nothing to say?

cptskippy 8y ago
They're not comparing 2018 models to 2011 models. They're comparing their cars to the safest cars in the last 7 years. You're assuming incorrectly that a newer model vehicle will always be safer than an older vehicle. The graph they're showing is: > SELECT TOP 50 * > FROM [carSafetyList] AS c > WHERE c.ModelYear >= 2011 > ORDER BY c.SafetyRating The other makes and models aren't relevant because Tesla has asserted that their cars are safer than any other vehicle tested in the last 7 years. If they're being truthful then that means you can pick any car the NHTSA has tested in the last 7 years and it will rank no higher than 4th on their graph. Would the knowledge that that a Volvo XC90 ranked 4th or 5th change anything? No, therefore why identify any other model?
- Someone1234 8y ago
  > They're comparing their cars to the safest cars in the last 7 years. They said the "top 50 vehicles." They didn't say the top 50 safest vehicles. > The other makes and models aren't relevant because Tesla has asserted that their cars are safer than any other vehicle tested in the last 7 years. We're meant to take Tesla asserting something, and not backing it up with facts as gospel? We literally don't even know what the source of those percentages are, for all we know Tesla created them.