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Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

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307 points MBCook | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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scruple ◴[15 Nov 24 22:53 UTC] No.42152204[source]▶
I spend a lot of time driving around Irvine, CA and it feels like the Tesla (especially Model Y) capital of the world. And I am not at all surprised to see these sorts of fatality statistics about these vehicles because their drivers are, far and away, the most distracted and oblivious drivers I have ever encountered on the road in 28 years of driving.
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1. gamblor956 ◴[16 Nov 24 00:42 UTC] No.42153050[source]▶
On my monthly drive to the office this week I passed 7 accidents on the morning commute to Irvine. Every single accident involved a Tesla. One of the accidents even involved two Teslas: one crashed into the other, and based on what one of the drivers was yelling into his phone as I slowly inched passed them, both Teslas were using FSD.

On a more somber note, in one of the accidents an AP/FSD-driven Tesla crashed into a motorcyclist. The motorcyclist survived (or at least, the news did not report a fatality on the 405 that day), but there was a lot of blood on the road and the Tesla that crashed into him.