Automotive research firm finds that Tesla has higher frequency of deadly accidents than any other car brand

  • Jesus
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    111 day ago

    Re bullet 2. Irresponsibility.

    My theory is that it is isn’t the badge on the car, it’s the fact that people’s grocery getter now was the performance of a high-end sports car from a decade ago. And, like a with a sports car, Teslas are designed to encourage users to have “fun” driving. Every test drive from a Tesla store ALWAYS includes a segment where the store rep encourages people gun it onto or on a large open road.

    Before Telsa it was the German manufacturers who dominated the commuter-car-with-sports-car-performance market. And guess what? Those people drove like a-holes.

    • @taladar@sh.itjust.works
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      421 hours ago

      Those people drove like a-holes.

      That is not true. I mean the bit where you put that into the past tense. They still do.