"No one was thinking rationally": spectacular crash uses emotion to scare people away from Tesla. More overall deaths ensue.
Tesla is the safest car [usatoday.com] that has ever been made.
Statistically speaking, if safety is an important concern you're better off ignoring lurid news stories about fiery crashes and purchasing a Tesla. (You may have different priorities, and ICE cars are also pretty safe.)
...and there are still a ton of Tesla shorts who would like nothing better than to make a profit by tanking the company, and are probably encouraging the prominence of this story.
Of course, that article is mostly about the problematic way aircraft safety ratings are measured. Doing it by flight hours doesn't work so well when the aircraft covers nearly two and a half times the same distance in the same number of hours. In any case, the way the statistics are done with cars, clearly one extra car accident is not actually going to reduce the safety rating of the car to any significant degree.
Eh (Score:4, Funny)
All I can read is "Here are two new submissions for the Darwin Awards".
New headline (Score:0, Troll)
"No one was thinking rationally": spectacular crash uses emotion to scare people away from Tesla. More overall deaths ensue.
Tesla is the safest car [usatoday.com] that has ever been made.
Statistically speaking, if safety is an important concern you're better off ignoring lurid news stories about fiery crashes and purchasing a Tesla. (You may have different priorities, and ICE cars are also pretty safe.)
Is this report at all newsworthy?
Re:New headline (Score:3)
the Concorde was the safest commercial airliner until one accident.
Guess where it came in afterwards?
https://www.washingtonpost.com... [washingtonpost.com]
Re: (Score:2)
Of course, that article is mostly about the problematic way aircraft safety ratings are measured. Doing it by flight hours doesn't work so well when the aircraft covers nearly two and a half times the same distance in the same number of hours. In any case, the way the statistics are done with cars, clearly one extra car accident is not actually going to reduce the safety rating of the car to any significant degree.
There probably was a third man (Score:2)
But when he realized that he had killed people, he did a runner.
This could be a real advantage of autonomous cars. If things go wrong then just be gone.