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by gamblor956
2471 days ago
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Last I checked, Toyota's cars don't roll themselves over. The driver of the SUV needs to be going too fast and take a turn too sharply to cause a rollover. Indeed, Tesla Model Ys, and all SUVs, are also prone to rollover due to having a higher center of mass than a sedan. This is why anti-rollover features are now standard in SUVs: to minimize the likelihood of a rollover occuring, and then to mitigate the harm to the occupants of the vehicle in the event of a rollover. In contrast, Teslas literally drive themselves into trucks, stopped cars, highway dividers, etc., resulting in the deaths of 7 drivers so far in a base of only a few hundred thousand vehicles, versus a rest-of-the-industry statistic of 0 across hundreds of millions of cars. And finally, Toyota doesn't go around bragging about how its vehicles are the safest cars ever, or misstating (or even outright lying) about IIHS or NHTSA safety tests. |
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PS: Oddly enough of you replaced those billion miles with average American miles in average cars you would expect 12.5 deaths. Tesla’s autopilot might be less safe than other new cars in their segment especially if driven defensively etc, but that’s harder to quantify.