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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
If the following statistics are true then Teslas and/or Telsa drivers are safer vehicles/drivers than average.
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First, these are Tesla statistics so they are automatically suspect (and I would say that if it was Toyota releasing Toyota statistics).
Second, at least to me, this is only significant if you are comparing like vehicle and owner classes. If you compare this to ALL cars, that means you are including everything for $2,000 cars driven by teenagers to supercars driven by rich, self-absorbed I own the road you just get in my way types.
I'm guessing, but do not know, that people who buy in the so called "luxury sedan" and other ranges the Tesla are in are most likely less accident prone than the overall population anyway. I'm basing this on the anecdotal evidence of 20 to 50 accidents I see per year while commuting (I drive a lot) and rarely is it this class of car is involved in an accident of substance.