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Absolute data points like this are pretty much useless, what would be more helpful is a percentage of deaths compared to Teslas out on the road vs. other automa
by kunai 5y ago
Absolute data points like this are pretty much useless, what would be more helpful is a percentage of deaths compared to Teslas out on the road vs. other automakers' cars. Still though, there's so many confounders (weather, types/subsets of customers, etc) that would make it nearly impossible to use this data to judge whether Teslas are safer or more dangerous than Car X or Car Y.
- anonporridge 5y ago> what would be more helpful is a percentage of deaths compared to Teslas out on the road vs. other automakers' cars ...yeah, that's exactly what I asked for in the first sentence.
- kunai 5y agoRight, but what I'm saying is that that still wouldn't paint the entire picture, there's too many overlapping variables and too few Tesla vehicles relative to market share of other brands to make any sort of sound or critical judgment of their safety. I'm not defending Tesla here, just stating the obvious. Not a fan of their cars for quite a few reasons