Tesla Has Highest Rate of Deadly Accidents Among Car Brands, Study Finds

Which is odd, because most electric vehicles (including some models of the Tesla) have better crash ratings due to having a crumple zone where the engine would be. Assuming that’s still true, there must be another factor that tips the balance towards deadly accidents. Some thoughts:

• They are heavy cars. Maybe it’s safer for the passengers but more deadly for the other vehicle.
• Maybe Tesla drivers are more irresponsible than other car owners.
• Maybe the torque and acceleration is too high, causing people to lose control more often.
• Maybe something that doesn’t get rated in the crash ratings causes deaths, eg. electric locks which are unable to open when power is lost, a likely scenario during collisions.
• Maybe the FSD features are causing more collisions to happen.

But all they did was market their pretty good lane-assist and automated braking as a magic butler that lets you nap in the driver's seat.

How could this happen??

I work as a valet driver and the Tesla - unlike any other car including the newer EVs from other brands - seems like it was designed by people who have never driven a car. Ever.

Call me crazy but having nearly all the controls in a stupid idiotic touch screen where you have to scroll through multiple menus for basic car settings is a terrible idea. And so is braking by letting off the gas.

And the people who buy them tend to be a certain kind of person… not the brightest

As an ev driver, some people shouldn't be allowed this much acceleration 0-60 time, me included.

Makes sense to me, most people who own them seem to drive like jackasses.

It's a Good Thing their Boss Elon Musk isn't in Charge of Vehicle Oversight now! That would be REALLY Corrupt!

I wonder if they have the data broken down by propulsion technology rather than manufacturer. One thing about Teslas and other luxury electric cars is that they have insane amounts of horsepower and instant torque. If you buy a Model S to schlep the kids around and are expecting it to behave like a minivan you'll be really surprised what happens if you floor it.

I'm curious to know if this trend is the same for other high-powered electric cars like the Hummer or Rivian. Cars that go that fast used to be limited to supercars, not large and widespread SUVs and pickups.

(Note this is not saying electric is bad or we shouldn't use it. But maybe manufacturers could ease up on the mo powah baby.)

But I also agree with the article that it could be related to their claims of "full self driving" because people might trust it too much and just not pay attention, or have it fail to detect something.

So we will see some insane stuff from Elox to take the spotlight from this or meh?

Elon: “We’re number one!!!”

<jumps, exposing midriff>

I'm having a hard time understanding this article. They say the Teslas have the highest rating of deadly accidents, but then go on to say Tesla ranked #6 on the list of fatalities, then once again stated Tesla was the worst. So what happened to the other five vehicles that had a higher fatality rating?

i hadn't ever thought about how the headlights having space between themselves on cars really helped judge how far a vehicle was and how fast it is moving toward me.

that is nigh impossible to judge with the teslas with the unibrow lights when moving in the dark.

Yep, his battery factory in Germany got into lots of PR trouble for poisoning ground water and having a three times higher rate of work related accidents then is normal.

Obviously the fault of too many studies. /s

Oh study finds huh, who'da thunk.

To adjust for exposure, the number of cars involved in a fatal crash were normalized by the total number of vehicle miles driven, which was estimated from iSeeCars’ data of over 8 million vehicles on the road in 2022 from model years 2018-2022.

Gived the number are estimated, how can we trust them?

e.v. drive weird.

Because they are very different machines on the same road :
in internal combustion engine vehicle, going downhill : let's accelerate a (little?) bit !

The electric car driver :
(slowing down) let's charge the battery !

There are approximately 250 million cars on the road and they only used data from 8 million? That's 3% of cars on the road to extrapolate into all the cars on the road. Seems like a huge flaw especially since we didn't know how they got that subset. All seems like click bait as most articles related to Tesla are...

Another good way / better way to see what cars are dangerous are insurance rates. Since insurance companies take in way more data than 8M cars when determining rates.