Tesla misses ‘Safest Cars’ list because its EVs don’t crash often enough (teslarati.com) 7 points by doener 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] LKAndrew 7y ago ↗ A lack of accidents doesn’t make a vehicle safer. It just means that there aren’t as many on the road.I don’t have the numbers, couldn’t really find anything online, but I’m sure the number of Tesla’s on the road is a fraction of Toyota’s [–] stunt 7y ago ↗ In 2018 alone: Toyota: 10M Tesla: 250Khttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manufacturers_by_motor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Production_and_sal...
[–] stunt 7y ago ↗ In 2018 alone: Toyota: 10M Tesla: 250Khttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manufacturers_by_motor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Production_and_sal...
[–] cdumler 7y ago ↗ Sensational. Should be *safest car in a collision.” Given so few collisions, they are unwilling to make an evaluation.
[–] pintxo 7y ago ↗ From the comments: „it's just a dated way to conduct a study on vehicle safety. they only looked at the crash -> injury relation. based on that from a scientific perspective teslas omission from the study makes sense.“
[–] stunt 7y ago ↗ They aren't saying that Tesla isn't safe. They are saying there isn't enough crash data to have it in the list.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 20.4 ms ] threadI don’t have the numbers, couldn’t really find anything online, but I’m sure the number of Tesla’s on the road is a fraction of Toyota’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manufacturers_by_motor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Production_and_sal...