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Is it possible that you are looking at the “wrong” Alice of data? These type of accidents are for sure very uncommon compared to any other accidents just by the
by 404mm 5y ago
Is it possible that you are looking at the “wrong” Alice of data? These type of accidents are for sure very uncommon compared to any other accidents just by the ratio of vehicles on the road.
I wonder if you could look at accidents that involved a stationary police vehicle. I’d be curious if it’s still very uncommon.
Anyway, I heard that so many times from cops directly. Squad cars in the night are like magnets for drunk drivers.
- bluGill 5y agoIf you watch a squad car pulled over you will notice they are at an angle so that the driver and get out of the far side of the car. That way when someone hits the car, the car protects them from the other car.
- smt88 5y agoThat tells us nothing about the prevalence of such collisions. A single incident can cause an update to a training manual.
- smt88 5y ago> I wonder if you could look at accidents that involved a stationary police vehicle. I’d be curious if it’s still very uncommon. Accidents involving any emergency vehicle traveling at any speed (including very fast through traffic) are less than 25,000/year in the US. As I mentioned in another comment, humans drive more than 3 trillion miles per year in the US, so the rate at which Teslas are hitting stationary police vehicles even if they have only ever done it once would be much higher than the rate at which humans do.