blakegallagher
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Finally someone (else) broke the ice on this point. I got so much negative rep earlier in the thread when I pointed out how the stats shouldn't apply to Tesla, that it wasn't worth pushing the subject!
The right comparison is fire frequency for cars that are < 1 year old. US data sources don't break it out by age cohort, so we don't know. But intuitively it's very low. (unless you are a ferrari!) The 150k per year is for the entire US car fleet which averages 10-11 years old....
I give Tesla a free pass on the first one, statistically speaking 1 data point is only enough for chicken little.
If folks want to be educators, maybe better to focus on Tesla's design quality vs. shrugging it off using a bad statistic.
again this is assuming cars catch on fire at a much higher rate as they age. I am not sure this is true.