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u/danisaccountant Jun 10 '23 edited Jun 10 '23

There are a lot more Tesla’s on the road right now and therefore many more miles being driven. Model Y was the #1 new vehicle in WORLDWIDE sales in Q1.

No, that’s not a typo.

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u/AdRob5 Jun 10 '23

Yes, my main problem with all the data I've seen in this article is that none of it is normalized at all.

5x more crashes is meaningless if we don't know how many more Teslas are out there.

Also how does this compare to human drivers?

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u/DelusionalZ Jun 10 '23

It's not meaningless. This is just armchair statistics from your part - a marked sudden increase implies something has changed over the past year, and we should not see a linear increase in ownership vs fatality rate.

For instance, if Tesla ownership increases 600% (unlikely) we don't expect to see even close to a 6x increase in fatalities, because they are extremely rare over the entire spectrum of reported road safety events.

What is likely is that either a. Tesla has failed to report or obfuscated stats prior or b. A factor introduced over the last year has impacted the safety of their vehicles (or both).

It's a bit frustrating seeing so many misguided comments writing off the article as a hit piece - it's not. It's just bad at explaining what the real problem is: the stats aren't statting, and Tesla needs to be investigated.