Automotive research firm finds that Tesla has higher frequency of deadly accidents than any other car brand

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Thank you for linking to the actual report. It makes a lot more sense. Since they’re basing it on occupant fatalities it makes sense that smaller cars are deadlier, since they’ll suffer more damage in an accident. It’s also interesting that the small SUVs are more deadly, which I attribute to the low mass and high CoG leading to more frequent rollovers.

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      5 days ago

      Aha, occupant fatalities. I was hoping to find out if they were measuring people inside the cars mentioned or people in other cars or pedestrians or all of the above