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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 register
by 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 agoGood 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.