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Yes, 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, man
by gamblor956 4y ago
Yes, 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.