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by whatisthis9 910 days ago
I think part of the reason is Tesla's have crazy fast acceleration and are also probably by far the largest market penetration of cars with that level of acceleration. People migrating from most conventional cars aren't used to driving sports cars. Also anecdotally given the acceleration, a few of my friends that drive teslas sometimes seem to ignore yellow lights.
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From the same source, Ram drivers have the most incidents (all types), BMW the most DUIs by a wide margin

https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

Also worth noting the worst is approximately 2x the best ~(15->30)/1000

> Also anecdotally given the acceleration, a few of my friends that drive teslas sometimes seem to ignore yellow lights.

Can you uh, ask them to stop doing that?

> Also anecdotally given the acceleration, a few of my friends that drive teslas sometimes seem to ignore yellow lights.

They bought Tesla's, good decision making doesn't seem to be in their wheelhouse.