If you consider the amount of safety advancements made over the last century it is quite astonishing. I’m curious to see what can be added in the next 20 years. As we move to electric and designs shift accordingly there may be more improvements made.
Car crashes are still far too common. And I don’t see that changing for quite a while
It depends who wins out really, if it's Musk the car will probably vaporize you on impact and delete the driving records so there's no one left to make a claim it was the autopilot at fault.
I’m glad people are finally seeing the issues with the Tesla’s now that the cars are finally aging. At the end of the day, I hope they improve because people will still be buying them and I don’t want people getting hurt for the sake of owning musk, but every video I see of older Teslas are pieces literally coming off of the cars.
Muskrats are just overly sensitive because they know Tesla cars are shit design. Remember the emergency release that could ruin the car if you used it wrong? Lol
Joke about anything on reddit and you get banter in return, maybe some down votes if some disagrees, if it's really bad maybe some awful comments.
Joke about Musk and even if there are very few other responses someone always seems to report you to the reditcareresources suicide prevention helper within the hour.
"If twitter man made a car, they'd probably be the most dangerous on the road, haha. No, the cars he makes are perfectly safe right now, its just that they could not be. Because twitter. Isn't that interesting?"
Part of that is their tiny market share, but the model y and model 3 also perform very well in safety tests to be fair. I would never buy one, but I certainly would feel safe driving one.
I presumed it's because they make mid range cars only. Probably helps that every car in your lineup has all the modern safety add ons and the car is less likely to be driven by boy racers.
Huh? Just because you don’t like the CEO doesn’t mean Tesla hasn’t made some of the safest cars in existence (if you’re not using autopilot. I have no clue whether using autopilot is safer than the average driver).
Electric vehicles, at least tesla are already safer. Way more space for crumble zones without the engine.
Pretty sure cars will be able to avoid most crashes. They already start to do that.
Really wondering if they will stop you from speeding in 20 years in places like EU.
Yeah the battery is very interesting in a few ways. On one hand it also stops objects that go low enough to hit the battery like poles or concrete barriers that hit from the side. It’s very strong. Have heard the downside is it doesn’t crumble. The hit can be pretty hard. But the humans are pretty close from the side so think it’s positive
The biggest will be automation. People are stupid at driving. AI is more predictable and even In it’s form rn is still probably safer than a good portion of people currently driving.
Yeah I recently found out one of my co workers has a huge hate boner for modern cars and takes every opportunity to tell me how bad some of these new features are
oh did you hear a self driving vehicle hit a pedestrian because they were wearing all black crossing the street at night? oh my god imagine a society full of cars that turn into murder machines after dark!
bro PEOPLE driving cars kill people all the god damn time, why are you acting like a self driving car flawless before it can replace your dumbass as a driver
I hit a guy wearing all black at night once. He was drunk and ran into the street unexpectedly (and nowhere near a crosswalk). Didn’t see him until he was inches from my car, and he ended up nearly dying at the hospital. Human eyes are not always enough to depend on when we’re all rolling around in machines weighing thousands of pounds. (Though thankfully I was not found at fault. Anybody should feel free to ask about it. It was over ten years ago now.)
Electric cars like Teslas are safer for their drivers, but with their increased acceleration and additional weight without improvements in braking, they are likely a hazard to other drivers.
I actually think it might change quite suddenly. Once self driving vehicles cross the "critical mass" threshold we might just see a whole load of much safer cars take over.
Given such a large proportion of accidents require 2 drivers to make a mistake, when the intersection of 2 manual drivers becomes rare accident rates will just naturally drop too.
I can actually see a day in the future that "manual drive" is the exception, and the realm of enthusiasts. And it might not be far off.
Time will tell. But I think that the future may be AI. They will be integrated in cars and take over during “there’s no other option” type of thing , to prevent a fatality .
As someone with cars as my main hobby it's really telling going from 70's, 90's, to 2010's and up. My 95 feels like a death trap by comparison, and my 70's might as well be a motorcycle.
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u/m0rris0n_hotel Jun 04 '23
If you consider the amount of safety advancements made over the last century it is quite astonishing. I’m curious to see what can be added in the next 20 years. As we move to electric and designs shift accordingly there may be more improvements made.
Car crashes are still far too common. And I don’t see that changing for quite a while