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

  • Jesus@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Re bullet 2. Irresponsibility.

    My theory is that it is isn’t the badge on the car, it’s the fact that people’s grocery getter now was the performance of a high-end sports car from a decade ago. And, like a with a sports car, Teslas are designed to encourage users to have “fun” driving. Every test drive from a Tesla store ALWAYS includes a segment where the store rep encourages people gun it onto or on a large open road.

    Before Telsa it was the German manufacturers who dominated the commuter-car-with-sports-car-performance market. And guess what? Those people drove like a-holes.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      Those people drove like a-holes.

      That is not true. I mean the bit where you put that into the past tense. They still do.