Very weak methodology here. First, accidents per 10,000 vehicles is only one piece of the puzzle. You also have to consider accident outcomes: how well the car

Very weak methodology here. First, accidents per 10,000 vehicles is only one piece of the puzzle. You also have to consider accident outcomes: how well the car does in crash tests. Tesla does do very well but that data isn’t considered in this article. I’m sure there are very few accidents in classic cars driven very carefully but that doesn’t mean they’re safe cars. Accidents per 10,000 vehicles is also flawed because it doesn’t seem to be considering miles driven. Electric cars will be driven less than gasoline ones as a rule due to their range and recharging limitations. Tesla owners don’t go far, if they were road warriors they’d be choosing gasoline. Also, Tesla has an exclusivity and recency bias. The company was only able to mass produce vehicles at significant volume in the last 3 years or so. All these other brands have millions of older cars on roads that don’t benefit from modern collision avoidance features. If this methodology did more to only consider the most recent years of vehicles in a similar price range, I don’t think Tesla would be especially unique. A 2022 BMW or Mercedes is also going to come with very good collision avoidance and self-driving features. The expense of a Tesla also means that people with the best socioeconomic outcomes are their customers. These are the types of people that probably already have fewer car accidents, health problems, and longer overall lifespans because they have more time, money, and eduction that reduce the problems they face in life. They have the money to maintain a late model year vehicle with all the safety features and don’t drive on bald tires and shoddy suspension. You can see this on their list with Ferrari being high on the list along with Tesla. There’s nothing particularly safe about a Ferrari compared to other cars, it’s just being driven by someone who is most definitely going to be paying attention. Finally, I’ll point out that no personal vehicle is safer than public bus and rail transportation. Tesla isn’t solving the world’s transit problems, it’s still just another representative of unsustainable automobile-based city development that is bankrupting our towns one-by-one.