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Tesla itself has previously claimed that its vehicles had fewer fires, per miles travelled, than other vehicles in 2012-2018: one per 170 million miles for Tesl
by wcoenen 7y ago
Tesla itself has previously claimed that its vehicles had fewer fires, per miles travelled, than other vehicles in 2012-2018: one per 170 million miles for Tesla, vs one per 19 million miles for all.
https://www.tesla.com/nl_BE/VehicleSafetyReport https://www.tesla.com/nl_BE/VehicleSafetyReport
- dfsvvsdzc 7y agohow many of those 19 million cars were < 5 years $30k > cost > $100k pampered cars? Strung out million dollar Ferraris and PoS 30 year old death traps shouldn't count towards the normalization.
- mlindner 7y agoIf that were true the number of fires would be going down every year. However on average for the last 5-10 years the number of fires is pretty constant. See: https://www.statista.com/statistics/377006/nmber-of-us-highway-vehicle-fires/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/377006/nmber-of-us-highw... If anything there's a gradual trend of increasing number of fires in the last 6-7 years.