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Father and son incinerated after ‘self-driving’ Tesla suddenly slammed into tree
(www.independent.co.uk)
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You don't hear about it? I constantly hear about people dying in Teslas. And the car is a joke for years now, it can't become a joke any harder.
You hear about them because every fatal crash is reported, every fire is reported. You don't hear about the same things for other brands. A kid killed himself near my place driving his father's V8 car, it didn't even make the local news because teenage boys killing themselves in cars by driving recklessly is hardly rare.
I'm aware. Teslas are probably safer than the average old car you have on the roads. But you hear about them a lot more.
Hmm why statistics are against it? I hate Elon, but statistically Tesla is 2x safer than average car. Proof me wrong
Im getting downvotes, but nobody wants to change my mind ;)
After some googling, the "Why?!" in the image seems to be completely bullshit, though.
Electric cars have a way lower amount of deaths from fire than petrol cars. So why would there be outrage about Tesla fire safety?
The comparison in the image also completely ignores number of cars on the street, total miles driven. All car models will have fire deaths. Without scaling with number of cars, you are just always going to be outraged at the number of deaths for the most popular car model...
The outrage about the Ford Pinto was because it was a known specific defect which was covered up (fuel tank rupturing when rear ended), more than the number of deaths in itself. As far as I can tell, the number of fire deaths were actually not extraordinarily high for the Pinto. Hence comparing this not especially high number to Tesla for outrage purposes is meaningless.
There's absolutely zero chance that Tesla isn't covering up stuff right now about the safety of their vehicles. Zero.
source: c'mon bro, like, c'mon
It was not covered up, the Pinto had the same fuel tank design as other manufacturers, it's just at that period of time, Ford had more cash.
Lawyers do not sue to justice, they sue for cash.
This isn’t true. Read up on some details of the lawsuit. Although Ford had designs overseas with fuel tank behind the rear axle, not one model by Ford or others had 9” or less crush space like the Pinto. They had meetings and reports to discuss crash test results that showed the Pinto vulnerable to fuel spillage based on proposed federal crash tests. They decided to defer any improvements until 1976 to accrue $20 million in savings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimshaw_v._Ford_Motor_Co.
Hahaha
The 1937 New London School gas explosion killed 295 students and teachers.
New London School is joke to you?
Whoosh. Reread the thread, champ.
Because, for some reason, people actually like teslas?