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Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Re: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Post by MattRix »

helpPeople wrote: post #56
gamblor956 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note: this quote is from Tesla, not the IIHS. It's marketing speak and isn't supported by anything in the IIHS's actual public announcement on their most recent vehicle safety ratings. Tesla has received flak in the past for misstating the results of IIHS and NHTSA testing.

Some people seem more accepting of misinformation than others. The whole Mars thing + no 30k electric car after all these years have me immune. Tesla and musk are simply not trustworthy.

He's always late with his estimates (aren't we all), but he sure is determined to deliver eventually.

I'm not always a huge Musk fan, but I don't understand this kind of criticism at all. Going to mars is something the human race hasn't done before, it's no surprise it is taking longer than expected.

Re: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Post by austhrow743 »

eatbitseveryday wrote: post #49
SEJeff wrote: post #2

This is the part that gets me: The Institute’s results also demonstrate the exceptional strength of Model 3’s all-glass roof, which is supported by a very strong metal body structure and helps protect occupants in roll-over crashes. During testing, the car’s roof was able to successfully resist more than 20,000 pounds of force – that’s more than if we placed five Model 3s on top of the car’s roof at once. And, the ro…

Please do not use code formatting for quotes. It creates a terribly long unbroken side-scrollable box. > The Institute’s results also demonstrate the exceptional strength of Model 3’s all-glass roof, which is supported by a very strong metal body structure and helps protect occupants in roll-over crashes. During testing, the car’s roof was able to successfully resist more than 20,000 pounds of force – that’s more tha…

This site is absolutely littered with that formatting. It needs to be changed to [yesiampostingcode][/yesiampostingcode] or something like that.

It's not like browsing the internet on a phone is a new concept any more. Little ridiculous how nothing has been done about its frequent use.

Re: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Post by eigenloss »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #10

I get why Tesla gets the flak from analysts, it being a public company; But I rarely see an analyst speak about Tesla's impressive record in building safe cars. Especially when there are car manufacturers who try to hide flaws which can lead to catastrophic malfunction or had been caught with cheat devices for emissions test. Also one more thing which is less talked about is Tesla's autopilot being useful for people…

The second and third paragraphs of the above comment are bound to age poorly.

Re: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Post by eatbitseveryday »

sand500 wrote: post #108
rootusrootus wrote: post #105

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Especially on HN, which does a poor job of letting you know that someone has replied to your comment.

FWIW, someone made a tool that emails you if your comment gets a reply. http://www.hnreplies.com/

That’s neat, thanks! I usually just refresh once an hour or so.

Re: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Post by mirrortits »

SilasX wrote: post #89
SEJeff wrote: post #85

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Well when I looked at it a bit later, I was unable to edit the original comment. Kind of makes the point moot don't you think?

You didn't see/care how the post looked for several hours?

Can you PLEASE go fuck yourself?

Re: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Post by helpPeople »

hndamien wrote: post #113
helpPeople wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people seem more accepting of misinformation than others. The whole Mars thing + no 30k electric car after all these years have me immune. Tesla and musk are simply not trustworthy.

You appear to be quite accepting of misinformation. Nobody promised a $30k electric car. It was $35k and they delivered it.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27120534/tesla-model-3-li...

From this year. There will be no 35k Tesla.

Anyone who got one was merely lucky.

Re: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Post by MrBuddyCasino »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #100
crushingcrash wrote: post #87

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This is hilarious to me, how this site is so badly laid out and has so many rendering bugs.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. Prepending 4 spaces is intended to be used for posting source code, where automatic line wrapping is undesirable.

I mean you could just render it differently on mobile, or at least not with such a tiny bounding box. Its not impossible.

Re: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Post by dang »

mirrortits wrote: post #125
SilasX wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You didn't see/care how the post looked for several hours?

Can you PLEASE go fuck yourself?

Ouch, please don't post like this to HN. We ban accounts that do it, because we're trying for something different here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Could you please read those guidelines and use HN as intended? We'd be grateful.

Re: Tesla earns its first-ever safety award from IIHS for Model 3

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Post by hndamien »

helpPeople wrote: post #126
hndamien wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You appear to be quite accepting of misinformation. Nobody promised a $30k electric car. It was $35k and they delivered it.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27120534/tesla-model-3-li... From this year. There will be no 35k Tesla. Anyone who got one was merely lucky.

So we agree that they delivered it.

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Post by sliken »

m463 wrote: post #117
ajross wrote: post #51

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> make Teslas more likely to crash than other vehicles Citation needed. Which other vehicles? Tesla's overall safety record is quite good. Every car has things it does well and things it does badly, and every other manufacturer gets judged on the safety record on balance. I mean, do you regularly post on HN about, I dunno, Toyota's safety record given the high center of gravity of its SUV offerings that make them "mo…

Well, teslas ARE more likely to crash than commercial airliners, because "everyone knows you are more likely to die driving to the airport than in the plane" Other than that, tesla does publish some data: https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport That said, people commonly constrain the Tesla comparisons to newer cars or in some other way.

See wikipedia's "aviation_safety" page. Avaiation is clearly safer per mile (a factor of 60 or so), but not that much safer per hour (factor of 4 per so), but is 3 times more dangerous per journey.

So driving to the airport might well be safer than flying across the country according to the journey metric. Even using the hour metric I often am less than an hour from the airport and take more than a 4 hour flight.

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