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Are you joking? Why would you think that age has not much to do with it? Do you think that new cars are just regularly having failures and starting on fire? To

Are you joking? Why would you think that age has not much to do with it? Do you think that new cars are just regularly having failures and starting on fire? To be clear, you can find some data here: https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics-and-reports/US-Fire-Problem/osvehiclefires.pdf https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-st... "roughly three-quarters of the highway vehicle fires reported in the US in 2017 that were caused by mechanical or electrical failures (77 percent) involved cars with model years of 2007 or earlier" Such failures accounted for about a little over 13 times as many fires as "Collision, overturn, or run over" and the remainder of categorized ones are intentional/exposure/careless smoking. Maybe you need to reconsider your mental model of car fire causes.

jjcon 4y ago
Not joking at all - Based on that data we're talking maybe a maximum 2x increase due to the age factor when looking at relative risk. That would still mean Teslas are 5x less likely to cause a fire when adjusting. Maybe you need to read the study closer before assuming they back up your assumptions.
- ahahahahah 4y ago
  > Maybe you need to read the study closer before assuming they back up your assumptions. Now I'm more confused. What possible assumptions of mine are you talking about? I didn't really make any claims anyway, so at best you can assume I shared the data about the age of cars because I believe that the age of cars is relevant to how likely they are to be involved in fires. The data backs that up.