Tesla's imaginary PR department engages in this sort of nonsense themselves. They compare their fleet's crash rate, for example, to all cars on the road in the

Tesla's imaginary PR department engages in this sort of nonsense themselves. They compare their fleet's crash rate, for example, to all cars on the road in the US, at a time when the age of the average car on the road is the oldest it has ever been. The average car on the road also isn't a well-optioned mid-luxury car with driver assistance aides. It would be like BMW saying "our new BMW M-whatever is faster than 90% of cars on the road!" Uh, yes, but how fast is it compared to other new, similarly priced sports sedans? When you compare Teslas against cars made in a similar time period, in a similar market space (mid luxury) which are much more likely to have driver assistance aides like emergency braking, lane departure warning / intervention, cross traffic warning, etc - Teslas have a much worse crash rate.