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No, but understandable since we masquerade 3 Tesla fails per year as international news while ignoring the 101 gruesome highway deaths daily

• bdcravens 7y ago
  as a ratio, the number of non-Tesla’s on the road is far greater than 34:1, so Tesla’s are responsible for a disproportionate share
  • rolltiide 7y ago
    just let them roll them out and if there is a real problem do a recall, just like every other car manufacturer
    • bdcravens 7y ago
      I'm unaware that anything to the contrary is happening. There's just the added public opinion and media backlash, which is always fair. Tesla doesn't get a free pass.
  • bzbarsky 7y ago
    Just to be clear, the numbers in the parent comments were "3 per year" and "101 per day", so the ratio there is 12288:1. There are approximately 250e6 registered vehicles in the US, so if all the Tesla-related fatalities are those "3 per year" (which seems unlikely to me; it assumes that there are no Teslas involved in fatal accidents when the automatic driving stuff is not engaged) to be disproportionate there would have to be only ~21000 Teslas on the roads. There are close to an order of magnitude more than that at this point.
    • bdcravens 7y ago
      Good catch. This site seems to be an interesting aggregation of Tesla deaths: https://www.tesladeaths.com/ https://www.tesladeaths.com/ It claims 29 deaths in the US from Teslas in 2019; 3 are from accidents where auto pilot use was claimed.