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The media sure loves to cover stories about Teslas catching fire, don't they?
by BitwiseFool 4y ago
The media sure loves to cover stories about Teslas catching fire, don't they?
- coldtea 4y agoYes, by now they should have been used to it. It's not like it's a rare occurence...
- mwint 4y agoStatistically, it is indeed a rare occurrence. What they should be used to is gas cars self-immolating.
- gamblor956 4y agoYes, but if Tesla wants to go around claiming their cars are so much safer than ICE cars, they'll just have to deal with all the media coverage of the many, many, many, many times that Teslas are less safe than other cars on the road. Live by the sword, die by the sword, and all that. You'll note that the Kia Niro EV gets minimal coverage (other than perfunctory reporting of recalls) because....wait for it...they don't claim it's safer or better than other cars, just electrified.
- BitwiseFool 4y agoThe real question is, are they objectively safer than ICEs by a numbers standpoint? There's a reporting bias because intputmag and other media outlets do not write stories about when other cars catch fire. Such coverage is skewing people's perceptions.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoThere have been about 135K Kia Niros sold in the 6 years they've been being produced. Meanwhile, Tesla is delivering 300K vehicles per quarter. Kia Niro EV gets minimal coverage because they're selling a minimal number of them.
- gamblor956 4y agoYou are comparing Tesla's worldwide sales across all models versus Kia's single-model sales in one country. For a proper comparison, Kia sells 200k vehicles/month (for 600k/quarter). And is considered one of the smaller major automakers. Kias don't get covered in the news because cheap, reliable cars that don't have issues aren't newsworthy. They're the standard. Teslas are in the news all the time because they're expensive pieces of crap that have constant issues from the moment they roll of the assembly line.
- malermeister 4y agoTeslas sure love catching fire, don't they?
- BitwiseFool 4y agoCompared to other ICE cars? When a ford fiesta catches fire no one writes an article about it.
- metadat 4y agoElectro-chemical fires (lithium batteries) are a whole different beast compared to common fires with ICE vehicles. The lithium battery fires basically cannot be extinguished, and it's a tremendous amount of energy.
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoYes, but the GP comment: > Teslas sure love catching fire, don't they? implies a higher quantity of fires, which is just FUD.
- metadat 4y agoI'm not sure about the numbers, but I've seen multiple Tesla fires IRL, and never seen an ICE vehicle spontaneously begin smoking and catch fire in front of me. Ymmv.
- frumper 4y agoFord just told 39k owners of Expeditions and Navigators to park outside because of engine fires. 12 of the 16 reported fires happened while the cars were turned off. https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2022/05/19/ford-suv-recall-engine-fire-risk/9835262002/ https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2022/05/19/ford-...
- mwint 4y agoI’ve seen multiple gas car fires IRL, and never seen a Tesla vehicle spontaneously begin smoking and catch fire. I guess our anecdata cancels out.
- PascLeRasc 4y agoThe fire wasn't the main safety issue of the story.