A very tragic and sad accident indeed.
I’m trying to understand how accidents such as this occur especially with newer vehicles with so much tech. I’m not singling out Tesla’s but I wonder if there are other auto makers out there that have had similar accidents and why these type of accidents occur?
I dont think more accidents occur in teslas (im not searching for statistics). What I DO think, which is something that OP alludes to, is that many tesla drivers have an inordinate amount of faith in the tech. It works perfectly like 90-95% of the time (to totally make up numbers). The problem with that, as I mentioned in passing earlier in this thread, is that its "too good, but not perfect". Its good enough to inspire too much confidence in it, but not "perfect".
I also think that these fatal accidents are somewhat rare, in the scheme of things, especially compared to total numbers of accidents. Because tesla is "different" (and elon is very "out there" sometimes), and many people / companies have a vested interest in seeing them fail for monetary reasons, there is a huge focus on tesla in relationship to other car makers.
I still find it somewhat strange that people on these forums scour the internet and seem to be intent on making sure that everyone sees every "tesla crash" though. Saying that, I find quite a few things about these tesla forums somewhat different from other car forums, and this is only one of those things.