Study: Tesla has the Highest Accident Rate of any Auto Brand

[SWO]

"Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Ram (22.76) and Subaru (20.90) were the only other brands with more than 20.00 accidents per 1,000 drivers for every brand."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveb...ident-rate-of-any-auto-brand/?sh=56034b12894d

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[nvabill]

Guess that's what happens when you make some of the fastest and most powerful cars on the road today! ?

 

[azerik]

And advertise them as hands free and the safest things around.

 

[Mach-Lee]

The study was based on insurance quote applications FYI. Tesla owners probably seek insurance quotes more frequently than other brands due to high rates. "However, there are indications that certain types of vehicles attract riskier drivers than others."

Here is the original: https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

 

[YunniorO]

And advertise them as hands free and the safest things around.

The Tesla website does clearly state the following though:

Autopilot, Enhanced Autopilot and Full Self-Driving Capability are intended for use with a fully attentive driver, who has their hands on the wheel and is prepared to take over at any moment

https://www.tesla.com/support/autopilot

 

[azerik]

If only the guy playing the ukulele that passed me on the 101 had read or heeded that warning,

 

[YunniorO]

If only the guy playing the ukulele that passed me on the 101 had read or heeded that warning,

playing a ukulele? The carelessness is crazy, but I would’ve probably died of laughter if I saw some dude roll by while playing a ukulele

 

[azerik]

I have a pic somewhere. I've seen much more careless. I live in Phoenix. It can be a show in it's self. The majority of Tesla's I've run across here and no care for what is going on around them.

 

[Hammered]

What kind of whack-a-doodle metric is this? Tesla and "drivers". How are they correlating the two and WTF does lending tree have to do with anything regarding accident rate of drivers? This whole thing smells.

 

[SWO]

Guess that's what happens when you make some of the fastest and most powerful cars on the road today! ?

Probably has something to do with it. I always say that Tesla drivers are the new BMW drivers.

 

[DevSecOps]

What kind of whack-a-doodle metric is this? Tesla and "drivers". How are they correlating the two and WTF does lending tree have to do with anything regarding accident rate of drivers? This whole thing smells.

Yeah it's obviously click bait because the data is based on drivers. Not vehicles. Additionally, there's nothing that suggests that the accidents happened in the vehicles that they are attempting to insure.

So yes the Forbes article smells and the OP giving it the Title he did speaks to his intentions.

^^^ That is not at all what the article is about.

Being that Tesla has a younger driver base (per a Jerry Study) it's no surprise that they would be more accident prone. "found that 70% of the Tesla drivers in the data set were 34-years-old or younger — meaning the majority were Millennials or Generation-Z"

Interestingly, the study also found that "Tesla drivers are more educated on average. About one-third of Tesla drivers studied had a master's degree or doctoral degree as compared to only 13% of the US population, according to the Census." Maybe the next thread will be about that since we like being fair around here right?

 

[nvabill]

I have a pic somewhere. I've seen much more careless. I live in Phoenix. It can be a show in it's self. The majority of Tesla's I've run across here and no care for what is going on around them.

Do tell, how did you come by getting a photo of it, surely you were not operating a motor vehicle while taking photos? ?

 

[thekat03]

Do tell, how did you come by getting a photo of it, surely you were not operating a motor vehicle while taking photos? ?

I will assume his passenger snapped a shot. ?

 

[nvabill]

I will assume his passenger snapped a shot. ?

I don't assume anything, quote from his post, " If only the guy playing the ukulele that passed me on the 101 had read or heeded that warning". So, I will let @azerik answer for himself.

 

[azerik]

Yes. In order to prove how dumb he was I had to catch up and pass him whilst taking a pic with a iphone. Sure. in hindsight when you say it out loud I was the dumber'er.
I'm older and possibly wiser now, than I might have been, back then and all.

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