@Khashoggi
The stat is completely worthless.
It doesn't consider:
The fact that the majority of cars in the NHTSA stats includes cars from late 90s and Early 2000s with little or no safety feature.
The fact that the Tesla stat is only counting very narrow Highway incidents while the NHTSA stats is counting incidents from highway, surface streets, urban, suburban country, etc. Where most accidents/deaths happen at.
The fact that ~50% of Teslas are in CA where the roads are pristine and the weather is spotless with no inclement weather of any kind. However the NHTSA stats is from all 50 states and contains every inclement weather imaginable.
The fact that Autopilot even in other states are likely not to be used by owner in inclement weather while the NHTSA stats obviously does.
The fact that the demographic of NHTSA include teenagers who have by far the most accident rate and Tesla's stats only include luxury rich demographic.
Majority of tesla cars were made in 2018 and above. If Tesla wanted an actual comparison then they would compare their statistics with the stats of other luxury (same price range) cars that were made in 2018 or above. Tesla knows this "report" is worthless but they release it anyways because they know a good chunk of their fans will believe and evangelize ANYTHING. At the end of the day the safety rate of Tesla's cars and AP ends up being the same (maybe in worse) as other luxury car models.
GM Supercruise's 0 incident in 5.7 Million miles
Breaking it down:
1. Majority of cars in the NHTSA stats includes cars from late 90s and Early 2000s with little or no safety feature.
- Here is a study showing the average vehicle on the road is 15.6 years old.
- There are 17 million new cars sold every year. Which is the reason the average is even at 15. So a car on the road from 2000 and a car from 2020 cancel each other out and comes out to be 10 years.
- This is why NHTSA did research on Vehicle Survivability and came out with 25 years.
- For example electronic stability control (ESC) became standard in 2012 and NHTSA said in 2015 1,949 passenger car occupant lives were saved. Shows you what difference simple safety features in newer cars do.
- Newer cars are much safer than older cars
2. The fact that the Tesla stat is only counting very narrow limited access highway incidents while the NHTSA stats is counting incidents from highway, surface streets, intersections, urban, suburban, rural, etc. Where most accidents/deaths happen at.
- In 2018, 70 percent of crash deaths in urban areas occurred on roads less than 55 mph.
- In rural areas, majority of all fatal crashes occur on two lane highways, narrow or nonexistent shoulders, and limited sight distance due to hills and curves.
3. The fact that ~50% of Teslas are in CA where the roads are pristine and the weather is spotless with no inclement weather of any kind. However the NHTSA stats is from all 50 states and contains every inclement weather imaginable.
- ~50% of Model 3s are in CA
- 17% percent of all vehicle crashes occur during winter conditions
- Nationwide, an average of 1,179,253 police-reported crashes, 425,103 injuries, and 5,137 deaths occurred in adverse weather and/or roadway surface conditions annually, representing 21.0% of all crashes, 18.5% of all injuries, and 15.6% of all fatalities during the study period.
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